Legal Opinion · Dissent

Board of Education v. Wheat

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided May 20, 1938No. [No. 58, January Term, 1938.]Published

1Dissent

Parke, J.,

filed a dissenting opinion as follows, in which Mitchell and Johnson, JJ., concurred.

The writer dissents from the grounds on which the majority of the court holds Chapter 185 of the Acts of 1937 constitutional, and believes his reasons should be stated:

Before the enactment of chapter 185 of the Acts of 1937, the transportation of children to schools in Baltimore county was authorized and controlled by section 50 of article 77, title “Public Education,” of the Code of Public General Laws, which provided that “The county board of education shall consolidate schools, wherever in their…

2Cases cited64 opinions

  1. Meyer v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  2. Pierce v. Society of SistersSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
  3. Noble State Bank v. HaskellSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
  4. Loan Assn. v. TopekaSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
  5. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. GrosjeanSupreme Court of the United States · 1937

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