Page v. Howell

CULLEN, Commissioner.

After the completion of a new consolidated elementary school building at Rich-pond, in Warren County, the county board of education ordered that the elementary school at Woodburn, some four miles to the south of Richpond, be closed, and that the children from the Woodburn community attend the Richpond school. The four teachers who had been teaching at Wood-burn were transferred to Richpond, to serve with four other teachers who formerly had been teaching in the old elementary school at Richpond.

An action was brought by some of the citizens of the Woodburn community to…