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Lilly v. Crisp County School System

Supreme Court of Georgia
Jan 18, 1968
159 S.E.2d 707 (Ga. 1968)

Opinion

24432.

ARGUED JANUARY 8, 1968.

DECIDED JANUARY 18, 1968.

Validation of bonds. Crisp Superior Court. Before Judge McMurray.

Davis Frieden, Roy B. Frieden, for appellants.

D. E. Turk, Solicitor General, Wright Reddick, Graydon D. Reddick, Gambrell Mobley, David H. Gambrell, John H. Mobley, for appellees.


This case involves a bond validation proceeding brought by the State of Georgia, pursuant to Code Ann. § 87-302 against the Crisp County School System to validate $325,000 of school bonds. Malcolm Lilly and Alfred B. Olsen were granted permission to intervene in said proceedings and raised certain objections to the validation of the bonds which objections were overruled by the trial judge and the bonds validated. The appeal is from this judgment. Held:

This court has jurisdiction of this case only if a sufficient constitutional attack has been made on the statute by the words: "all in violation of the constitutional provision of the State of Georgia, forbidding the enactment of legislation containing a plurality of subject matter and containing matter which is not germane and which is not included in the title," without designating the specific part, paragraph, and section of the Constitution which it is claimed it violates. "In order to raise a question as to the constitutionality of a statute, the provision of the Constitution alleged to have been violated must be clearly specified and designated, reference being made to the part, paragraph or section. Clements v. Powell, 155 Ga. 278, 280 (8) ( 116 S.E. 624); Inlow v. State, 168 Ga. 377 (1) ( 147 S.E. 881); Johns v. State, 180 Ga. 187, 188 (3) ( 178 S.E. 707); Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Wilby-Kincey Service Corp., 204 Ga. 273, 274 ( 49 S.E.2d 514); Krasner v. Rutledge, 204 Ga. 380, 382 ( 49 S.E.2d 864)." Wright v. State, 217 Ga. 453, 456 ( 122 S.E.2d 737); Swint v. Smith, 219 Ga. 532, 534 (2) ( 134 S.E.2d 595); McDonald v. State, 222 Ga. 596 (2) ( 151 S.E.2d 121).

Since the attack on the statute in this case did not designate the constitutional provision claimed to be violated and there is no other basis in said intervention for this court's jurisdiction, the case is

Transferred to the Court of Appeals. All the Justices concur.

ARGUED JANUARY 8, 1968 — DECIDED JANUARY 18, 1968.


Summaries of

Lilly v. Crisp County School System

Supreme Court of Georgia
Jan 18, 1968
159 S.E.2d 707 (Ga. 1968)
Case details for

Lilly v. Crisp County School System

Case Details

Full title:LILLY et al. v. CRISP COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM et al

Court:Supreme Court of Georgia

Date published: Jan 18, 1968

Citations

159 S.E.2d 707 (Ga. 1968)
159 S.E.2d 707

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