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BECKANSTIN v. DRAKE

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89 Ga. App. 636 (1954)

80 S.E.2d 506

BECKANSTIN v. DRAKE et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided February 11, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sams, Wotton & Sams, E. L. Smith, Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Custer & Kirbo, E. P. Stapleton, contra.

QUILLIAN, J.

A county board of education is not a corporate body with the power to sue and be sued. Consequently, a suit for the breach of a contract cannot be brought against it. It is merely an agency through which the county acts in school matters. Board of Education of Candler County v. Southern Michigan Nat. Bank, 184 Ga. 641 (192 S. E. 382); Mattox v. Board of Education of Liberty County, 148 Ga. 577 (97 S. E. 532, 5 A. L. R. 568...

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