Nichols v. Board of Education

Gilbert, Justice.

The petitioners, as .residents, citizens, and taxpayers of Richmond County and as former teachers in the public schools of that county, whose contracts had expired, brought this suit to enjoin the Board of Education of Richmond County from enforcing a resolution alleged to be illegal and void because arbitrary, unreasonable, and unconstitutional, and to enjoin the said board from electing teachers on any basis that excludes petitioners as applicants on an equal basis with all other applicants for positions as teachers in said schools. The Board of Education demurred *85to the…