State ex rel. Madden v. Windham Exempted Village School District Board of Education

Relator asserts that once respondent has credited her with one year of service for one hundred five days of substitute teaching, it can not later withdraw such a grant. Respondent contends that it has discretionary authority to withdraw the previous grant of one year of service of fewer than one hundred twenty days where relator, after resigning in. 1971, returns as a new employee several years later. Respondent further argues that a writ of mandamus is not proper, in part, because relator has an adequate remedy at law.

We initially note that this court in State, ex rel. Villari, v. Bedford…