Pierce v. Beck
Supreme Court of Georgia
Judgments. Schools. Before Judge Lester. Lumpkin Superior Court. April Term, 1878. To the facts stated in the first head-note, it is only necessary to add that Pierce applied for a mandamus against the county school commissioner and the board of education of Lumpkin county, requiring them to audit his account for teaching and to pay him his pro rata out of the public school fund. The writ was refused, and the relator excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
It appears from the record, that as far back as the year 1873, the county board of education in and for Lumpkin county, going beyond the letter of the public school law as it then stood, established a system of local trustees in each school district of the county. Under this system two trustees were chosen by the patrons and one by the teacher, and these three had the immediate superintendence of the school. The system was continued in force up to, and including, the year 1876. In this last year, the trustees for one of the school districts investigated some alleged…
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