SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, JUNE TERM, 1870. THE STATE OF ALABAMA EX REL. G.L. PUTNAM, &C., VS. GUSTAVUS HORTON, JUDGE OF PROBATE, &C. ... E.B. LOTT, TAX COLLECTOR, WILLIS. G. CLARK, ET ALS, VS. E.P. GAINES, ET ALS. P, HAMILTON, OF COUNSEL FOR APPELLEE.
[Montgomery? 1870]. 23, [1 blank] pp, with original printed title wrappers. Text lightly dusted, wrappers dirty, stitched.
This case is a chapter in Alabama's bitter Reconstruction history. Mobile School Commissioners claimed that George L. Putnam, Superintendent of the Mobile schools, had mishandled funds which were supposed to be used to support the free public schools. Putnam had been appointed Superintendent by N.B. Cloud, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, whom unreconstructed Alabamans considered a Scalawag.
Putnam used public funds, as authorized by Cloud, for the support of a school for Negroes. The outcome of the case turned on whether the Commissioners were properly established under the laws and Reconstruction Constitution of Alabama. This brief reviews the history of the Mobile School System and the controversy. Item #31292
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