Corrothers v. Board of Education
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to two orders of the circuit court of the county of Monongalia, made on the 18th day of August, 1876, in a cause in chancery in said court th<3n pending, wherein John W. Corrothers and others plaintiffs and the Board of Education ot Clinton of the county of Monongalia was defendant, owed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Charles S. Lewis, judge of the second judicial circuit made the orders appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to two orders of the circuit court of the county of Monongalia, made on the 18th day of August, 1876, in a cause in chancery in said court th<3n pending, wherein John W. Corrothers and others plaintiffs and the Board of Education ot Clinton of the county of Monongalia was defendant, owed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Charles S. Lewis, judge of the second judicial circuit made the orders appealed from. Johnson, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: In March, 1876, the plaintiffs presented to the judge of the circuit court of Monongalia…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Judge
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Bull et al. v. Read et al., 13 Gratt. 78, was an injunction to a levy for taxes for school-purposes, on the ground that it was illegally levied under the act providing for free schools in the first magisterial district of Accomack county, and on the further ground that the said act was unconstitutional. It was claimed by the defendants that a court of equity had no jurisdiction in the case. Judge' Lee, who delivered the opinion of the court in that case, said at page eighty-seven : “It may be that for each act *541of…
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