Perry County Board of Education v. Deaton

Reversing.

The County Board of Education of Perry County voted to change the location of a one-room school building from the mouth of Cams Branch to a point in the same district about three-fourths of a mile distant from the present building. Three residents of the district, known as the Johnson School District, instituted this action to enjoin the Board from so doing. This appeal is prosecuted by the Board from'the judgment of the chancellor restraining it from changing the location of the schoolhouse.

The petition averred the Board was arbitrarily changing the location of the school building…