Legal Opinion
Cowan v. Clay County Board of Education
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided February 14, 1931No. 12530PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtConner, C. J.
This suit was instituted September 9, 1930, by R. T. Gowan, R. S. Gowan, L. B. Hapgood, F. D. McNeill, Ebb Sweazea, and Mrs. E. H. Carter, all residents of Clay county, and K. N. Hapgood, a resident of Dallas county, against the Clay county board of trustees, alleged to be a body politic with authority to sue and be sued to set aside certain orders of said county board, purporting to abolish the Gowan common school district No. 17 of Clay county and distribute its territory among adjoining school districts. It was alleged that:
“On the second day of March, 1929, at a meeting of the Clay County…
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