Upson County School District v. City of Thomaston

Hill, Presiding Justice.

This case presents the question of whether the annexation of territory into the corporate limits of a municipality operating an independent public school system also extends the limits of the city school system. We hold that, absent an expression of legislative intent clearly to the contrary or valid agreement between the school systems involved, municipal annexation extends the limits of an independent public school system operated by the municipality.

As of 1945, four public school systems existed, or were authorized, in Upson County, Georgia: the county school system…