The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-02-28
SETTLEMENT OF SUIT
In No. Over the Division of School
District.
Editors Of Commercial:

i Ihe ChaQCeTy suit III WHICH SCHOOl
district No 10 became implicated
has been dismissed. All matters
OF controversy have been adjudi-
Gated by your humble servant and
there exist reasonable evidence up
OH which to found the belief that
contention and discord have been
displaced by harmony and a good
fellow-feel;ng.
Following is the obligation:
Feb. II, 1902.
We, the undersigned, parties to
suit now pending in the Chancerv
Court at Union City, Tenn. which
appears on the docket as Rogers ct
al. VS.. Brown ct al. do hereby agree
to appoint ]. M. Moore, our County
Superintendent, as our arbitrator
to make complete and final adjust
ment of the matters involved in said
chancery suit. And we promise
that said Moore's decision will be
acquiesced in and fully endorsed by
us, and that said decision shall be
the termination of said chancery
suit.-H W. HICKS, G. r. Mos1ER,
w. E. ROGERS, w. E. POWELL, J..
A. CALHOUN, W. o. STAFFORD, M.
N. BROWN, H. w. HOWARD.
Deeming it Inappropriate and I'M
wise to give a full history OF the
litigation together with the circum-
stances which led up to the same,
it is my purpose to deal with those
facts which are indispensable to an
intelligent and honest conclusion
relative to the whole matter.
In the first place there is our in
terest, which stands paramount to
all others in this lawsuit, it being
the one which not only deserves but
demands our positive protection and
uncompromising support. Hence
the welfare of the children of the
10Th school district shall constitute
the warp and woot OF my dellber-
ations.
If their interest is properly con-
served and amply provided for, then
the task assigned me will have been
executed with perfect satisfaction
to myself.
After carefully considering all
the facts without discussing the
same have decided to divide the
10Th school district asfollows: Be
ginning at bridge spanning Reel
foot creek east of Buck Escue's
house, thence in a northwestern
direction with the public road lead
ing by Mt. Manuel Church to the
Dyersburg road, thence to the State
line, including the farms OF Gid
Williams, Mr.. Mooney and Feb
Mosier IN the western division OF
said 10Th school district. This line
cuts the old district, approximately,
into equal parts; but two-thirds of
the scholastic population is in the
western section.
The western section will retain
No. 19as it's number and the east
ern section will be designated as
No. 81. Inasmuch as 1927 was
drawn from the old district to pay
on the new schoolhouse, now in
the 10Th district, one-third of same,
or $75.65, is due the eastern section
or No. 81 district.
| valued the, school furniture in
the Mosier schoolhouse at $40 and
let district No. 81 keep the same,
allowing No. 191t pro rata interest
Sc. GO. 1t the old schoolhouse belongs |
to the public school board and not to
G. r. Mosier then the school board
of No. 81 can take the same with
out any remuneration to the other
district, forI think the labor of tear
ing down and moving the old house
is worth as much as the lumber in
After paying the cash of suit
($18.65) there is on hand to the
credit of old district 1892. 80, $11080
belonging to No. 81, $221.59 belong
ing to No. 10. But No. 81 owes
No. 19 on desks, etc, 5000 and No.
10 owes No. 81 one-third of money
paid on schoolhouse $500. Hence
No. 81 has now on band S181 80 and
No. 19 has cash $150.59.
There will yet be added from last
years taxes to the fund of No. 81
about $126. so and to that of No. 19
about S253. In consideration OF the
above No. 81 has fund from which
to draw this year about $308. 80 and
No. 19 fund of about $403.59. The
trustees books have been adjusted
accordingly. l have appointed D.
D. Kirk to act as director with
Brown and Howard in No. 10. |
also appoint w. o. Stafford and j.
A. Calhoun to be associated with
w. E. Rogers as directors. Of
course, until the county court rati-
fes this arbitration, the newly APP
pointed directors can act only as
advisors, and any contracts made
in either district, in order to be
legal, must be made by the original
There was d time when the old
Mosier schoolhouse was reasona-
bly, accessible to the children of
their district, but since the same
has been settled up on both ends
we find almost majority of the
children of the old nineteenth school,
district more than three miles from
IL.