Hughes v. Board of Education

Plaintiff appeals from an order denying his motion for a temporary injunction in an action for a permanent injunction and a declaratory judgment.

The essential facts are undisputed. Plaintiff, who since September, 1923, has been permanent principal of a day high school in the city of New York, was in June, 1925, also appointed principal of an New York evening high school in the borough of Manhattan. He continued to serve from 1925 to 1936 as principal of such evening high school throughout the entire term in each such year until the board of education on June 10, 1936, adopted a policy that…