Flory v. Smith

The object of this suit is to test the legality of a rule promulgated by the school board of Gloucester county. This rule is as follows:

*166“Student Regulation: Leaving the campus between the hours of 9:00 A. M. and 3:35 P. M. is strictly-prohibited unless students are accompanied by a teacher.”

The appellees, husband and wife, who are residents of the town of Gloucester Court House, at the opening of the 1925-26 session of the public school, entered their two children, Nellie Shackelford Smith, age eleven, and Charles S. Smith, III, age nine, in the Botetourt school situated in the town.

It was…