People ex rel. Bergoffen v. Board of Education

If the amendment of 1912 to section 1089 of the revised charter, which fixed a three-year limitation upon the life of lists of those eligible for appointment to the teaching staff of the public school system of the city of Hew York, had been placed in that charter upon its revision we should not now be confronted with the vexatious problem which this case presents. The controversy here, and which has engendered considerable acrimony among those charged with the administration of the public school system, is as to the effect to be given to the following clause contained in section 1090 of the…