Myrtie Hopkins v. Condon Wasson, Robert Hamilton, Joe Ledford, J. A. Ware, Joe Harris and Lesterhaney

ORDER.

Plaintiff-Appellant, Myrtie Hopkins, brought this suit against defendants appellees, who were respectively the principal of the Bradley County, Tennessee, High School and members of the county board of education. Plaintiff was a teacher in the county high school, but in 1960 her employment was terminated by the board of education. In a diversity action, she charged, in the first count of her complaint, that defendants had, by terminating her employment and by the utterance of certain slanderous statements, deprived her of civil rights. She relies on Title 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1981-1988, as…