Brown v. Newman

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SHRIVER, J.

R. S. Brown brought this suit in Chancery Court at Gallatin, Tennessee, against the defendants, constituting the Board of Education of Sumner County, for recovery of his salary for a school year, as damages for alleged breach of his contract as a teacher in the Sumner County schools.

Complainant alleged that he held a permanent teachers certificate issued him by the Department of Education of Tennessee, and that he had taught in the Public Schools of Sumner County, Tennessee, since 1936, and that, under the Teacher Tenure Act of 1951, Sec. 2345.1 et seq., Williams Annotated Code ,…