McRae v. Grace

W. A. Grace and O. N. Thorp brought a petition for mandamus against J. A. McRae as commissioner of roads and revenues of Wheeler County, seeking to require him to make a levy of taxes for support of Scotland Consolidated School District. According to the agreed statement of facts, presented to the judge without intervention of a jury, “the controlling question in the case was whether or not the Board of Education of Wheeler County, after the Scotland School District had been consolidated as provided by law by the concurrent action of the Board of Education of Wheeler County and that of the…