# Tipton v. Board of Education of Blount County

> Supreme Court of Alabama · May 21, 1964 · 276 Ala. 571

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9682811

## Case

- **Full name:** Bess Fullerton TIPTON, as Adm’x, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF BLOUNT COUNTY Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** May 21, 1964
- **Citations:** 276 Ala. 571; 165 So. 2d 120
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Merrill
- **Judges:** Merrill, Livingston, Simpson, Goodwyn, Coleman, Har-Wood
- **Cited by:** 9 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9682811

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

MERRILL, Justice
(dissenting) :
I dissent on the ground that the claim became moot upon Mr. Tipton’s death.

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