Towner v. Moore ex rel. Quitman County School District

ROBERTSON, Justice,

for the Court:

I

Today’s appellants are husband and wife and simultaneously served, respectively, as a public school board member and schoolteacher, after this Court had said this gave the board member an interest in the teaching contract offensive to our constitution. The Circuit Court found the violation and ordered the board member fined and removed from office, the teacher and the board member jointly to give restitution for the salary illegally received.

We affirm.

II

A

Mary Alice Towner and Ezra Towner, Jr., are husband and wife and reside at Route 1, Box 7, Marks, Quitman…