Board of Education v. Hunt
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for breach of contract; from city court of Houston county — Judge Biley. May 18, 1922.
1DissentLuke, J.
I cannot agree with the majority opinion. The laws under which plaintiff in error was constituted nowhere *668state in totidem verbis that county school boards are bodies corporate, or that they may sue and be sued. Section 1478 of the Civil Code of 1910 makes every county in the State a school district confined to the control and management of a county board of education. Section 1479 provides that five freeholders selected from time to time by the grand jury shall constitute the county board of education. Section 1484 bestows upon such boards rather broad powers, among which are: to purchase,…
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