City of Oak Ridge v. Morgan

This appeal presents for determination the question of when the Oak Eidge School System first became entitled to share in State funds appropriated by the Legislature for educational purposes. The Chancellor held that these schools were not entitled to share in the funds appropriated by the Legislature in February 1959 by the 1959 General Education Act (Chapter 14, Public Acts 1959). An appeal from this decree has been perfected to this Court.

The appellants, the City of Oak Eidge, its Mayor and the Oak Eidge Board of Education, filed the original bill in this cause against the Commissioner of…