Park v. Independent School Dist. No. 1
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Des Moines District Court. Plaintiff alleges in his petition that in the month of September, 1882, he entered into a contract with defendant to teach its school for a term of 34 weeks, for which service defendant agreed to pay him at the rate of $45 per month; that he entered upon the performance of his duties under said contract on the fourth of September, and continued therein until the eighteenth of that month, when the defendant’s board of directors…
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Appeal from, Des Moines District Court. Plaintiff alleges in his petition that in the month of September, 1882, he entered into a contract with defendant to teach its school for a term of 34 weeks, for which service defendant agreed to pay him at the rate of $45 per month; that he entered upon the performance of his duties under said contract on the fourth of September, and continued therein until the eighteenth of that month, when the defendant’s board of directors wrongfully and illegally discharged him, and refused to permit him to further perform said contract; that he thereupon appealed…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The evidence given on the trial shows that, on the morning of the eighteenth of September, the members of defendant’s board of directors appeared at the school house, and informed plaintiff of certain rumors affecting his character and conduct as a teacher, which were current in the district. No formal action was taken at that time, but in the afternoon of the same day the members of the board came together again at the school house, and in plaintiff’s presence examined some of the pupils of the school touching the sub*211jeet of said rumors. The result of this meeting was that plaintiff ceased…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Smith v. District TownshipSupreme Court of Iowa · 1876
3Cited by11 opinions
- Edgecomb v. Traverse City School DistrictMichigan Supreme Court · 1954
- Burkhead v. Independent School DistrictSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898
- Board of Education v. BaconCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1918
- School District No. 18 v. DaviesSupreme Court of Kansas · 1904
- Schrader v. Cameron Township School DistrictSupreme Court of Iowa · 1936
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