Board of Education v. Cox

George Cox brought suit in the common pleas court of Vinton county, Ohio, in January, 1926, to recover from the board of education of Swan township, Vinton county, Ohio, the reasonable value of providing transportation for his son, Lloyd Cox, in attendance upon Swan township high school. The petition alleged the readiness of the son Lloyd for high school instruction, that plaintiff’s residence was a distance of more than four miles from said high school, and that he in fact attended high school for the years 1923-24 and 1924-25. It was also alleged that he requested and demanded that the…