Bacon v. Board of Public Education

The school system in Chatham County, under the acts of 1866 (Ga. L. 1865-6, p. 78; Acts 1866, p. 175), is an independent local school system, the territorial limits of which are coextensive with the limits of the county. The ruling in Glenn v. Trion Co., 157 Ga. 639, that “The word ‘ independent/ as used in the constitution, denotes a system of schools under different control from the system of public schools for which the county-wide tax is authorized to be collected,” has no application to the present case, because the County of Chatham was by law an entire system existing prior to the…