Opinion

Tipton v. Board of Education of Blount County

  • 276 Ala. 571
  • 165 So. 2d 120
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
May 21, 1964
Status
Published
Author
Merrill
On the bench
Merrill, Livingston, Simpson, Goodwyn, Coleman, Har-Wood
Cited by
9 cases

holding that board that had failed to produce any evidence of justifiable decrease in jobs could not rely on that ground for terminating employment of teacher

How later courts described this case

  • holding that board that had failed to produce any evidence of justifiable decrease in jobs could not rely on that ground for terminating employment of teacher

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

MERRILL, Justice

(dissenting) :

I dissent on the ground that the claim became moot upon Mr. Tipton’s death.

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