French v. Board of Education

The petitioner applied for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent to recognize her alleged status as a permanent teacher and to pay her salary for a period of time within the school year 1941-1942 during which she had not been assigned to a teaching position. Respondent’s answer admitted that she had formerly held permanent status as a teacher in said district and alleged that this status had been terminated by her resignation. After a trial the court found in favor of the respondent finding, among other things, that petitioner’s permanent status had been terminated by *150her resignation,…