Dula v. . School Trustees

This is an appeal brought by A. W. Dula and others against the Board of Trustees of the Lenoir Graded School, asking for a writ of mandamus to compel the said Board of Trustees of the Lenoir Graded School to open and operate the said schools in Lenoir for the balance of the school term, which began in September, 1918, and was to close about 15 May, 1919.

The board of trustees employed Horace Sisk as superintendent of the graded school, Miss Mary Coffey as principal of the school, and a full crops of teachers of about twenty to run said school, to begin about the first of September, 1918, and…