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JORDAN v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR DURHAM COUNTY

No. 672.

95 S.E.2d 884 (1957)

245 N.C. 290

A. C. JORDAN, for and on behalf of himself and other residents and taxpayers of the Hope Valley School District of Durham County, v. The BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR DURHAM COUNTY, George F. Kirkland, Frank H. Kenan, Dewey S. Scarboro, S. LeRoy Proctor and Edwin B. Clements and The Durham County Board of Elections, John E. Markham, O. C. Wells and J. D. Bobbitt.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 11, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reade, Fuller, Newsom & Graham, Durham, for defendant appellants.

No counsel for plaintiff appellee.

DENNY, Justice.

No question has been raised as to the form or substance of the petition, the endorsement of it by the Durham City School Board, or the validity of the signatures or the fact that such signatures are those of a majority of the qualified voters who resided in the affected area for the required length of time. The sole issue in this case is whether the Board of Commissioners of Durham County had authority to call an election in the affected area in spite...

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