Jones v. County Board of Education

The plaintiff contends that the defendant has no legal right either to borrow money or to issue bonds for the purposes stated in the case agreed and assigns in support of his position four distinct grounds, each of which requires investigation.

1. His first proposition is this: At the election held on 25 April, 1922, the vote was confined to the question of levying a tax and did not include that - of borrowing money or issuing bonds, and hence both borrowing the money and issuing the bonds are inhibited by the organic law. Tbe constitutional provision relied on as tbe basis of tbe proposition…