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CITY OF LITHONIA v. DEKALB BD. OF ED.

28051.

231 Ga. 150 (1973)

200 S.E.2d 698

CITY OF LITHONIA v. DEKALB COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 21, 1973.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Swertfeger, Scott, Pike & Simmons, Thomas L. Scott, M. H. Blackshear, Jr., Richard P. Decker, for appellant.

Weeks, Candler & Sams, Robert Walling, for appellants.

Joe M. Harris, Jr., Theodore G. Frankel, George P. Dillard, amicus curiae.

GRICE, Presiding Justice.

We are called upon here to construe certain provisions of the Georgia constitution in light of the contention that a local amendment thereto (Ga. L. 1972, p. 1490 et seq.) was not properly ratified by the voters who were directly affected by it.

The issue arose when the City of Lithonia filed an action for declaratory judgment in the Superior Court of DeKalb County against the DeKalb County Board of Education and its individual members...

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