Jarrell v. Board of Education of County of Raleigh

Haymond, Judge:

This is a proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court by James R. Jarrell, a citizen and a taxpayer of Raleigh County, who sues in behalf of himself and other citizens and taxpayers, against the Board of Education of that county in which the plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment to prohibit the defendant from expending $866,910.14 of moneys derived from special levies voted in 1941 and 1944 for purposes alleged to be unauthorized in a pleading designated as a declaration but which may properly be considered as a pleading in equity. To the answer of the defendant the plaintiff…