State Ex Rel. Withers v. Board of Ed. of Mason Co.

Calhoun, Judge:

This case is before the Court on a writ of error to the judgment of the Circuit Court of Mason County entered on September 2, 1969, in two separate proceedings in mandamus which were consolidated for hearing and decision by the' trial court, sitting without a jury. In the two proceedings, Charles Withers and Charles Chambers, respectively, were the relators. In both cases, the respondents were the Board of Education of Mason County, the five individual members of that body and I. Brooks Smith, the County Superintendent of Schools of Mason County.

The cases which were…