
    BOARD OF EDUCATION (Detroit) vs. COMMON COUNCIL,
    80 M., 548.
   To compel respondent to levy a certain sum. for free text books.

Denied May 9, 1890.

Held, that the inclusion by the board of education in its annual estimate of a sum for free text books, in the absence of authority from a majority of the qualified electors, as provided by Section 6, Act No. 147, Laws of 1889, is absolutely void, and the writ will not be issued to aid in the enforcement of an illegal claim.  