King v. Board of Education

This case is one of contest of an election, which arose upon a petition brought to validate an issue of $1,000,000 in bonds to be issued by Richmond County for school purposes. The plaintiffs in error filed an intervention setting up that the return of the managers of the election, for reasons stated, did not truly report the result of the plebiscite, and for this reason the vote in favor of the issue of the bonds was not sufficient, and the proposed issue of bonds should not be validated. It was agreed that the trial judge, without a jury, should pass upon all issues of fact as well as law.…