Beverly v. Highfield

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sims

Affirming.

This action was instituted by Mrs. J. T. Highfield, as Superintendent of the Henry County Schools, against the members of the Board of Education of that county, herein after referred to as the Board, and John W. Long, a school teacher, wherein she sought to enjoin the Board from employing Long on December 1, 1947, as Principal of the New Castle High School, and to enjoin Long from acting in that capacity. A general demurrer was sustained to the separate answers of the-Board and of Long, both of whom declined to plead further and a permanent…