Board of Education of Forrest County v. Sigler

This case has been fully tried on the-merits, and is now presented to this Court. All of the judges are in agreement that the Board of Education of Forrest County is entitled to the funds in question in a properly brought suit. Yet the controlling opinion, on the cross appeal of the members of the Board of Supervisors, reverses and dismisses the application of the Board of Education for writ of mandamus, because the petition was not brought in the name of a nominal party, the State, through its attorney general or a district attorney. The result of this highly technical disposition of this…