Board of Education v. Gresham
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Complaint; from Boekdale superior court — Judge Smith. October 6, 1916. This was a suit against the board of edueatión of Boekdale county for an amount claimed to be due to the plaintiff for services as teacher in New Pleasant Hill School, situated in DeKalb county, near the line of Boekdale county.
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Complaint; from Boekdale superior court — Judge Smith. October 6, 1916. This was a suit against the board of edueatión of Boekdale county for an amount claimed to be due to the plaintiff for services as teacher in New Pleasant Hill School, situated in DeKalb county, near the line of Boekdale county. The amount sued for was a part of her salary proportioned to the number of children attending the school from Boekdale county, relatively to the total number of children in the school. The evidence shows that the claim was made out and presented to the defendant, which refused to pay it. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Section 1378 of the Civil Code of 1895 was as follows: “In special cases, to meet the demands' of convenience, children residing in one sub-district may, by express permission of the county board, attend the common schools of another subdistrict; and when a common school is located near a county line, children from an adjoining county may, by the consent of the county boards of the respective counties, be permitted to attend the school. In such cases the teacher shall make out- two accounts, one against each county board, in amount proportioned to the…
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