Riggs v. Green

The following facts appearing in the record are all that need be stated in the consideration of the question presented by this appeal. Joseph E. Green, the appellee, was a regularly appointed teacher in the public schools of Baltimore City, and was a member of the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute in which he was a teacher -of English, having charge of what was known as X Classes which were composed of boys who had failed to pass satisfactory examinations, and in consequence thereof had been set back in their studies. These boys were dissatisfied, disposed to be unruly, and were somewhat…