Kilpatrick v. Smith
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal of Thomas J. Kilpatrick and others from decree of hustings court of the city of Portsmouth, rendered 28th December, 1882, in a chancery cause in which O. V. Smith and others were plaintiffs, and the petitioners and others were defendants. In 1810 the state hoard of education appointed six school trustees for that city, which had then only two wards.
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Appeal of Thomas J. Kilpatrick and others from decree of hustings court of the city of Portsmouth, rendered 28th December, 1882, in a chancery cause in which O. V. Smith and others were plaintiffs, and the petitioners and others were defendants. In 1810 the state hoard of education appointed six school trustees for that city, which had then only two wards. The city council did not designate which of the trustees were to go out of office in one, which in two, and which in three years. They and the successors of such as died in the meantime, held over as such trustees until June, 1882, when.the…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
This is a contest between two classes of persons, each claiming to constitute rightfully the board of school trustees for the city of Portsmouth.
Viewing with just concern the great importance to the state ■ of a system of public free education, the people of Virginia, through their representatives, in convention assembled, for the first time in the history of this commonwealth, gave special significance to their appreciation of the subject by causing it to be provided, in specific mandatory terms, in the constitution now in force, that the general assembly should, at its first session…
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