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BETTERSON v. STEWART

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238 S.C. 574 (1961)

121 S.E.2d 102

S. E. BETTERSON, Marshall Brantley and Joseph Orr, individually, and as Electors, taxpayers and parents of Negro School Pupils of Jasper County High and Elementary Schools, and on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Appellants, v. Paul Allen STEWART, individually and as Supervising Principal teacher of Area No. 1 Jasper County Negro High and Elementary Schools, and L. Martin Sauls, Jr., C.E. Lowther, and R. H. Clemmer, Jr., as members of the Area No. 1, Jasper County Board of School Trustees, and G.R. Alford, as Area No. 1 Jasper County Superintendent of Education, and the Ridgeland Bank, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

July 27, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliott D. Turnage, Esq., of Darlington, for Appellants.

Messrs. Walker, Brown & McKellar, of Ridgeland, for Respondents.

July 27, 1961.

LEWIS, Justice.

This is an action by appellants as electors, taxpayers and parents of Negro School pupils of the Jasper County High and Elementary Schools upon a complaint setting forth four causes of action: the first, to require an accounting from the respondent, Paul Allen Stewart, Supervising Principal of said schools, for certain funds raised during the 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58 and 1958-59 school...

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