Hawkins v. State Board of Adjustment

FOSTER, Justice.

The question here is whether the State Board of Adjustment, created and existing as set out in the Code of 1940, Title 55, c. 10, Article 2, § 333 et seq., has jurisdiction of a claim for the negligence of a servant of the County Board of Education of Talladega County in causing the death of Major Hawkins. Death claims are to be made by the personal representative, and that was done here. Section 339, supra.

The authority of the Board of Adjustment is prescribed in the Code of 1940, Title 55, section 334. It does not include any matter of which courts have jurisdiction. And…