Ragland v. Davidson County Board of Education

In the spring of 1956, the Davidson County Board of Education adopted a resolution to condemn property belonging to the plaintiffs in error and authorized condemnation proceedings to be instituted in the County Court of Davidson County under authority of Sections 49-801 through 49-804, T.C.A.

These sections of the Code were originally Section 35 of Chapter 115 of the Public Acts of 1925, which is the General Education Bill. Of course it is the unquestioned rule everywhere, so far as we know, that land may be *320taken by the right of eminent domain for the purpose of public schools and that such…