In re Yelton: Advisory Opinion

*849To His Excellency, J. Melville Broughton,

Governor of North Carolina:

Your request for an advisory opinion in the matter of Nathan Yelton poses the question whether the comptroller of the State Board of Education may be granted a leave of absence under eh. 121, Public Laws 1941, he having accepted a temporary captaincy in the United States Army, and still retain his present position. Also involved is the broader question whether, in like circumstances, any State official may be given a leave of absence to accept a temporary officer’s commission in the United States Army or Navy without perforce…