Compton v. School Directors of District No. 14

The defendants appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $2,089.10. The case involves an alleged breach of a teacher’s contract and was heard by the Trial Court without a jury.

The plaintiff, Mrs. Irene Compton, a teacher, on December 29, 1953, filed her complaint, alleging that she entered into a written contract with the defendant school directors on June 13,1953, to begin on September 1,1953 to teach school at the Defendants’ Riverdale School in Whiteside County, for the ensuing school year, at a salary of $333 for eight months and $336 for the ninth month and that she…