Little River County Board of Education v. Ashdown Special School District

Hart, J. (after stating the facts).

The general rule is that a statute will always be sustained by the courts if there be any reasonable doubt of its unconstitutionality. The Legislature of 1919 passed an act providing for county boards of education and making it their duty to elect a county superintendent of schools. Crawford & Moses’ Dig., §§ 8873 et seq. We are -of the opinion that the constitutionality of the statute is settled by the principles decided in Mitchell v. Directors School District No. 15, 153 Ark. 50, and Acree v. Patterson, 153 Ark. 188.

In the first-mentioned case the court…