Board of Education v. Hunt

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

Must a contract between the county board of education and a person for the transportation of pupils to and from a public school, in a case where the board is authorized to provide such transportation, be reduced to writing, signed by both parties, and spread upon the minutes of such board, in order to be enforceable against such board by the party so contracting with it? It is insisted by the defendants in the court below, who at the time of the institution of this suit were members of such board, and the superintendent of the public schools of the county,…