White v. Board of Education of Lincoln County

Maxwell, Judge:

These are original jurisdiction proceedings in mandamus wherein the relators are teachers in the public schools of Lincoln County and the respondents are the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools of that county. The cases are dealt with together for convenience.

In each case, the relator was employed by order entered May 6,1935, by the Board of Education of Lincoln County as a teacher for the school year 1935-36. The employment was in pursuance of Acts of the Legislature, First Extraordinary Session 1933, chapter 8, article 5, section 4. Consequent upon such…