Hobbs v. Germany
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lincoln county. Hon. G. Garland Lyell, Chancellor., Germany and his-infant son, Henry Germany, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Hobbs and another, teachers, and Vernon and others,—trustees of the separate school district of the town of Boguechitto, appellants, were defendants there.
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From the chancery court of Lincoln county. Hon. G. Garland Lyell, Chancellor., Germany and his-infant son, Henry Germany, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Hobbs and another, teachers, and Vernon and others,—trustees of the separate school district of the town of Boguechitto, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree restraining the enforcement of a certain rule, regulating the hours of study for school children and providing that they should remain at home and study their lessons at night, and requiring defendants to reinstate the infant son, Henry Germany, as a pupil…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
The town of Boguechitto composes a separate school district, -and the appellants are trustees thereof and teachers therein. This controversy grows out of the attempted enforcement of a certain rule, adopted by the teachers of the school and ratified by the trustees, by which it is required that all pupils of the school shall remain in their homes and study from seven to nine p. m., and the rule provides that any pupil who shall violate it shall be punished, either corporally or otherwise, in the discretion of the teacher.
Henry Germany, a boy about sixteen years of age and living with his…
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