Fayette County Board of Education v. Tompkins

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellee and plaintiff below, A. B. Tompkins, and 26 other citizens and taxpayers of Fayette county residing outside of the corporate limits of the city of Lexington, filed this .equity action in the Fayette circuit court against the appellant and defendant below, the Fayette County Board of Education, seeking to compel it to pay tuition of plaintiff’s children who had completed the course of the county free common schools and who were eligible to enter high schools, for their attendance in the university high school located in Lexington,…