Beverstock v. Board of Education
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Wood County. On the 24th day of August, 1905, the plaintiff in error, as a taxpayer resident of the city of Bowling Green, and also resident of the Bowling Green school district of Wood county, Ohio, filed his petition in the court of common pleas of that county, in which he asked an injunction against said board of education, forbidding it to pay certain persons who had been employed to teach in its schools, for the time they occupied in…
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Error to the Circuit Court of Wood County. On the 24th day of August, 1905, the plaintiff in error, as a taxpayer resident of the city of Bowling Green, and also resident of the Bowling Green school district of Wood county, Ohio, filed his petition in the court of common pleas of that county, in which he asked an injunction against said board of education, forbidding it to pay certain persons who had been employed to teach in its schools, for the time they occupied in attending the county institutes, and forbidding the clerk of said board issuing an order for their payment for said period.…
1Opinion of the CourtPrice, J.
The decision of the present controversy depends upon a proper understanding of Section 4091, Revised Statutes, which provides: “All teachers of the public schools within any *147county in which a county institute is held may dismiss their schools for one week for the purpose of attending such institute, and when such institute is held while the schools are in session the boards of education of all school districts are required to pay the teachers of their respective districts their regular salary for the week they attend the institute upon the teachers presenting a certificate of full regular…
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