Nacogdoches Independent School Dist. v. Adams

The campus of the city schools of the city of Nacogdoches is a rectangle about 900 feet by 1,200 feet. On or about September, 1930, over the protest of appellee and many of the other property owners of the city of Nacogdoches, the board of trustees of the city schools contracted with Cyclone Fence Company to build a wire fence, mesh 1 or 1 1/2 inches, 6 feet high, around the campus, with arms extending from the tops of the posts upon which barbed wire was to be stretched. The contract provided for seven openings in the fence as it surrounded the campus. At that time appellee's twelve year old…