Georgia Iron & Coal Co. v. Tatum

NEWMAN, District Judge.

[1] I think the case of Brown v. Hawkins, 139 Ga. 697, 77 S. E. 1123, is absolutely controlling in this case. The second headnote in that case says this:

“The adoption of a resolution by a county board of education that the territory embraced in each militia district in the comity shall constitute a separate school district is not, without more, a substantial compliance with the positive requirements of the statute in relation to the laying off and marking out of the county into school districts by the county board of education; and a school district sought to be…