ROLFE v. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF LINCOLN CO., TENN.

Civ. No. 781.

282 F.Supp. 192 (1966)

Mrs. Elvira S. ROLFE and Mrs. Bernice L. Peebles, Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Tennessee, Winchester Division.

Supplemental Opinion August 30, 1966.

Supplemental Opinion and Order November 29, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Robert W. Stevens, Fayetteville, Tenn., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

NEESE, District Judge.

This is an action by two former teachers at West End School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, whose positions were abolished by the defendant Board of Education three weeks after the 1965-1966 school term had commenced, following the purported desegregation of the public schools of Lincoln County, Tennessee for the purpose of "* * * compliance with the civil rights law * * *." The plaintiffs seek, inter alia, compensation...

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