Stokes v. Newell

The appellant filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the circuit court of Hinds county against the trustees of the Jackson municipal separate school district of the first district of Hinds county, commonly called the Jackson separate school district. It was alleged that the defendants were trustees, and that the school district was lawfully established as a separate school; that petitioner is, by profession, a school teacher and school administrator, holding a first-grade license, and that she has been employed, since September, 1918, in the Jackson separate school district as a teacher…