Tippecanoe Valley School Corp. v. Leachman

This is an appeal by the Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation (school corporation), defendant-appellant, from a judgment that James Leachman (teacher), plaintiffappellee, a former teacher at defendant’s Akron High School, have and recover from the school corporation $3,240.92, as damages for breaching the teacher’s 1963-64 teaching contract.

The judgment was the result of a court trial. The facts were not found specially but the evidence most favorable to the teacher, supports the following account of the events which culminated in the judgment in his favor.

On June 19, 1963, the teacher and…