Thompson v. Gibbs

The complainants are school directors in one of the common school districts of Knox County, and they filed a bill in this cause seeking to enjoin the defendant from attempting to teach any longer in one of the schoolhouses of that district, which was under their control, and from interfering with its occupancy by a teacher whom complainants had employed to take charge of the school as' the successor of defendant.

The facts are these: The defendant, Gibbs, had been elected to the presidency of an academy in this county, and was in the act of accepting that place, when, induced by complainants,…