Murphey v. Educational Board

Jackson, Chief Justice.

[Murphey filed his petition for mandamus against the Educational Board of Burke County, alleging that he was county school commissioner in 1871, and there was a balance due him for his services of $383.00; that the act of 1874 appropriated all school funds then or thereafter on hand to the payment of the school debts of 1871; that defendants, instead of using the fund to pay him, diverted it to support schools; that they had then in hand $716.00 school fund of 1880, not needed for schools of that year; that this, as all other school funds, were subject to his claim, and…