Toothaker v. School Committee of Rockland

This is a petition for mandamus brought against the respondents, who are members of the school committee of the town of Rockland, to compel them to reinstate the petitioner as superintendent of schools of that town. The case was referred to an auditor, and afterwards was heard before a single justice of this court who as matter of discretion denied the petition. The petitioner presented to the auditor eighty-eight requests for findings of fact, all of which so far as pertinent to the issues involved were dealt with by him. The petitioner also requested the auditor to make twenty-seven rulings…