Wayne County Board of Education v. Lewis

The defendants take the position that since Wayne County Board of Education owns a six acre site on which the Mount Olive High School is located, and the proposed site for an elementary school adjoins the high school site, the Board was only authorized by the statute, G.S. 115-85, to condemn an additional acreage which together with the present high school site would not exceed ten acres.

We do not construe the limitation in the statute to place any such restriction on a county board of education. The high school site and the proposed site for a new elementary school, constitute separate…