Smith v. Sells

Private Acts of 1927, chapter 396, abolished the County Board of Education in Pickett County and substituted therefor a County Board of Public School Directors, consisting of five members. The Act named five citizens as constituting the first Board of Public School Directors, including three of the seven members of the Board of Education serving at the date the Act was enacted.

The bill in this cause was filed by the four members of the County Board of Education, deprived of their office by the new statute, charging, among other things, that the act is unconstitutional because only a colorable…