State ex rel. Dossett v. Obion County

Mr. Special Justice Williams

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought in the Chancery Court of Obion County by the State of Tennessee upon the relation of Burgin E. Dossett, Commissioner of Education, for the use of the Board of Commissioners of Union City, a municipal corporation, and its Board of Education to recover from Obion County and its County Trustee in his official capacity certain high school funds, which it is claimed accrued to the municipality for high school purposes under Appropriation Acts of 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943 and 1945, based upon the average daily…