Eason v. Hardin County Board of Education

The complainant filed her original bill in the Chancery Court to recover salary alleged to be due upon a contract of employment as a teacher in the public schools of Hardin County for the school year 1937-1938. The defendants demurred to the bill, which was sustained by the Chancellor. Thereupon an appeal was prayed and granted to this Court. The grounds of the demurrer were not specific and the Court had to look to the briefs of counsel to determine the real issues raised by the demurrer. In an opinion prepared for the Court by the Chief Justice, it is said:

"It is argued by counsel for the…