Edwards v. Board of Sup'rs
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Bolivar county. Hon. G-. E. Williams, 'Chancellor. Suit by L. E. Edward,s and others against the Board of Supervisors of Bolivar County for an injunction. From a decree dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill, compainants appeal.
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Appeal from chancery court of Bolivar county. Hon. G-. E. Williams, 'Chancellor. Suit by L. E. Edward,s and others against the Board of Supervisors of Bolivar County for an injunction. From a decree dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill, compainants appeal. The Mississippi legislature thought the matter of the place of holding election in consolidated school districts of sufficient importance to require the enactment of an independent and special law governing the mater, and in the exercise of its wisdom and unquestioned rights in the year 1914 it enacted a law, the first section…
1Opinion of the CourtIIoldijn, J.
This is an appeal from a decree dissolving an injunction and dismissing the bill of the appellants, who, as. taxpayers, sought to restrain the board of supervisors from issuing forty thousand dollars in bonds for the erection of a schoolhouse in a consolidated school district.
Upon the presentation of a petition by the patrons to the school board of Bolivar county asking that the Gunnison and Deeson school districts be consolidated into one district to be known as the Gunnison consolidated school district, and that the schoolhouse of said district be located at Gunnison, the schoolboard…
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