Craighead County Board of Education v. Henry

David Newbern, Justice.

Appellant, Craighead County Board of Education, dismissed Mearl Henry, the appellee, from his position as county school superintendent. The other appellants are Joe Boone, Doyle Yarbrough, and Robert Flannigan, who were apparently the only three members of the board. Henry sought a declaratory judgment to the effect that the dismissal was illegal because appellant Flannigan, who had voted to dismiss Henry, was not legally a member of the board when the vote was taken because he had forfeited his membership when he became mayor of Monette, Arkansas. Combined with his…