Opinion

Estes v. Jones

  • 203 Ga. 686
  • 48 S.E.2d 99
  • 1948 Ga. LEXIS 494
Court
Supreme Court of Georgia
Filed
May 14, 1948
Status
Published
Author
Duckworth
On the bench
Jenkins, Duckworth
Cited by
9 cases
Authority
More cited than 37.8%

no conflict between statutes and constitution where constitution was 14 silent as to subject matter of statutes

How later courts described this case

  • no conflict between statutes and constitution where constitution was 14 silent as to subject matter of statutes
  • “The Constitution of 1945 (art. VIII, sec. V par. I) creates a constitutional board of education for each county . . .”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Duckworth, P. J.,

concurring specially. I concur in the judgment of reversal solely because I am bound by the decision in

McCollum

v.

Bass,

201

Ga.

537 , in which I concurred, but which decision I am now convinced is unsound and should be overruled.

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