Cleavenger v. Board of Education

Litz, Judge:

The relator, Mabel Cleavenger, seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus against the county board of education of Barbour County, G. M. Turner, president, and Andrew Proudfoot, W. J. Arnold, John Pitzer and Frank Brandon, members thereof, compelling respondents to recognize as valid an alleged appointment of relator by a district board of education as teacher in a graded school for the school year 1933-34'.

By an Act of May 22, 1933 (chapter 8, Acts of the First Extraordinary Session, 1933), the legislature abolished magisterial and independent school districts, and created in their…