Martin v. Gill

If the order of the school board made on July 23, 1937, creating the Puckett Special Consolidated School District, was a valid order, then under the decision in Colmer ex rel. Phillips v. Alexander, 161 Miss. 691, 137 So. 787, appellant had no ease. The order is valid on its face, but appellant attacked it, by his pleadings, as being void for fraud and other reasons de hors. Upon the trial, when appellant offered his witnesses to prove the avoiding facts de hors, appellees objected on the ground that the evidence offered would be a collateral attack upon the said order, and all the objections…