Gibson v. Butler

OPINION

McCANLESS, Justice.

Sixteen persons, who averred they were teachers as defined by Section 49-1401, Tennessee Code Annotated, and were employed in the Claiborne County school system during the 1970-71 school year, filed their complaint against the members of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools of the county. Each alleged that at a meeting held on April IS, 1971, the Board had transferred certain of them, effective the next school year to positions' different from and less desirable than the ones they then held, and that the Board had not reelected certain of the…