Jeffers v. Stanley

OPINION

ERBY L. JENKINS, Special Justice.

This is an appeal by the Scott County Board of Education from the action of the Chancellor in modifying, upon a bill of review, a decree previously entered against the Board and in favor of the appellee, Carmel Stanley. For the purposes of this appeal, the parties will be referred to as they appeared in the court below, Carmel Stanley as plaintiff, and the Scott County Board of Education as defendant.

Plaintiff filed his original bill on November 7, 1964, alleging that the defendant had contracted to employ him as a teacher of the seventh grade in the…