Underwood v. Wood
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Cash 28 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM TAYLOR CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The county superintendent had no right to require appellants to litigate-with the teachers and officers of Taylor Academy.
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Cash 28 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM TAYLOR CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The county superintendent had no right to require appellants to litigate-with the teachers and officers of Taylor Academy. Section 30 of thcOivil Code is not applicable to this action. 2. The act incorporating the Taylor Academy violates section 37 of article-2, of the old Constitution, because it relates to more than one» subject,, and only one of the several subjects to which it relates is expressed m the title. (Hind v. Bice, 10 Bush, 528; Bushing v.Sebree & Wife, 12; Bush, 199; Jones v. Thompson Ex’or, 12 Bush, 594.) 3. The…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PBYOK
delivered the opinion op the court.
J. R. Robinson, a resident- of the county of Taylor, being interested in having good schools in his county, and particularly within the district in which he lived, erected, at his own expense and on his own land, a large school building, sufficient to accommodate and seat comfortably more than one hundred and fifty pupils. He had the institution chartered and called the Taylor Academy. It was and is a higher grade of school than the ordinary common schools of the State, and the evident purpose of this philanthropic man was to elevate the standard…
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