Trustees of Walton School v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

• 115 Miss. 117
• 75 So. 833

Syllabus

<p>1. Constitutional Law. Schools and school districts. Race legislation.</p> <p>Act 1910, chapter 124, as amended by Act 1912, chapter 255, in reference to consolidated schools, is not in conflict with the state or federal constitution, because under the law the board has the same power to create consolidated schools for the colored race that it has for the white 'race.</p> <p>2. Schools and School Districts. Consolidated school districts.</p> <p>A consolidated school district is simply a common school district where two or more existing schools have been consolidated into one single school district.</p> <p>3. Constitutional Law. Class legislation. Pleading. Sufficiency.</p> <p>A bill for an injunction against the issuance of bonds for ■ a consolidated school district is insufficient to present the question whether the order creating the consolidated school was invalid because it did not provide for the maintenance of a colored school, where it did not allege, first, that there was sufficient colored children to maintain a public school and, second, where it did not allege that there was no colored school located in the territory comprising the district whereat the colored children may be educated in the same subjects taught in the consolidated school.</p> <p>4. Schools and School Districts. Issue 0† bonds. Submission to voters'. Petition. Sufficiency.</p> <p>A petition signed by twenty per cent of the qualified voters of the district requesting submission to the voters for their rejection or approval of the question of issuing bonds for the purchase of building a consolidated school, was insufficient, such petition not being against the issuance of the bonds by twenty per cent of the. voters as required by law.</p> <p>5. Schools and School Districts. Bonds. Petition for submission to. voters. Amendment.</p> <p>The board of supervisors was right in refusing to allow an amendment to a petition to submit to the voters, the question of issuing bonds for a consolidated