Wood v. Inhabitants of Medfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, on an account annexed, for $150, being the balance alleged to remain unpaid of the salary of the plaintiff, as teacher of the high school in the defendant town, for the year ending July 7, 1874. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows: The defendant town admitted that its school committee made a contract with the plaintiff to teach the high school for said year, and that the plaintiff…
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Contract, on an account annexed, for $150, being the balance alleged to remain unpaid of the salary of the plaintiff, as teacher of the high school in the defendant town, for the year ending July 7, 1874. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows: The defendant town admitted that its school committee made a contract with the plaintiff to teach the high school for said year, and that the plaintiff was ready to execute the contract. The following letter was introduced in evidence by the plaintiff, and admitted…
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
Whatever questions might have been raised in the case, the only question presented in the Superior Court was whether the school committee was authorized by the Gen. Sts. c. 38, § 25, to discharge a teacher, who had been hired for a particular term, before the expiration of that term.
Upon this question there can be no doubt. The Legislature has seen fit to provide, for reasons of public policy satisfactory to itself, that “ the school committee may dismiss from employment any teacher whenever they think proper, and such teacher shall receive no compensation for services rendered after such…
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