Little v. Carter County Board of Education

The plaintiff, Mary Nan Little, was elected by the School Board of Carter County as a teacher in the primary department for the term of 1938-39; she entered upon her duties at the beginning of the term and taught for a period of five weeks, when she was summarily dismissed upon the assigned reason that the Board bad employed too many teachers and her services were not necessary, and that the salary carried under her contract when added to all other expenditures "incurred as salary for primary teachers, exceeded the limit fixed by the budget for this purpose, which rendered her contract void.…