Edmondson v. Board of Education

By Chapter 134, of the Acts of the Legislature of 1899, the territorial limits of the city of Memphis Were greatly enlarged. This Act was approved January 25, 1899. Three days thereafter, to wit: on the 28th of January, the Legislature passed, and the Governor approved, an Act providing that for a term of five years thereafter children of common school age, and residing within one-half mile of the limits of the city, as extended, should have the right to attend, free of tuition, the public schools inside the city nearest to their respective places of residence. This is Ch. 59 of the published…