Breathitt County Board of Education v. Back

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

A sliort time prior to June 7, 1917, the county common school district covering the territory occupied by the town of Quicksand in Breathitt county was created into a graded common school district pursuant to statutory provisions provided for the purpose. While the district was a county common school one the appellant and plaintiff below, Miles Back, the owner, permitted the construe tion of a schoolhouse on the three-fourths of an acre of land involved in this controversy. On the day mentioned he executed a writing to the trustees of the…