Smith v. Union Parish School Board

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Mrs. Katie Crow Smith instituted suit against the Union Parish School Board, in which suit she was joined by her husband, E. F. Smith, to recover $2,100, claimed to be due her under an oral contract of employment as a school teacher in the public schools of that Parish for the school year 19.48-1949, the Board having dispensed with her services without a hearing; they are appealing from the judgment of the lower court dismissing the suit on defendant’s exceptions of no cause or right of action.

The argument of appellants’ counsel that the trial judge erroneously…