Gilman v. Bassett
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application, by a special committee of the South School District of the town of Hartford, for a mandamus- against the respondents, the regular committee of the district, to compel them to replace in one of the schools of the district a teacher who had been removed by them. The following facts were found by the superior court.
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Application, by a special committee of the South School District of the town of Hartford, for a mandamus- against the respondents, the regular committee of the district, to compel them to replace in one of the schools of the district a teacher who had been removed by them. The following facts were found by the superior court. On or about the first day of September, 1865, the district, by its committee, Hugh Harbison, Samuel Dodd and Horace Lord, employed Miss E. A. Parsons as a teacher, to take charge of the second department of the Main street branch school, so called, within the district…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
This is an application by a special committee of the south school district of Hartford, asking on behalf of said district a peremptory mandamus to compel the stated district committee to carry into effect a vote of the district directing that committee to re-instate a teacher whom they have removed from the charge of a particular school. The *304superior court on request of the applicants issued an alternative mandamus, requiring the stated committee to comply with the vote of the district or show reasons why a peremptory mandamus should not issue, and that committee still refusing to comply,…
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