Trustees of Graded Free Colored Common Schools v. Trustees of the Graded Free White Common Schools

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

Mayfield is a city of the fourth class. As such it maintains a free graded school for white children, and a separate free graded school for colored pupils. This action was instituted by the trustees of the colored graded school against the trustees of the white graded school of Mayfield to recover of the latter $2,797.43, alleged to be due the colored graded school as its pro rata part of $14,226.77' the total ad valorem tax collected and appropriated by the white graded school trustees from all corporations liable to taxation in the city of…