State Ex Rel. Smith v. City of Chattanooga

Complainants allege in their bill that they are and have been employed as teachers in the Chattanooga schools for a number of years; that the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee by Chapter 621, Private Acts of 1935, as amended by Chapter 83, Private Acts of 1935, Extra Session, provided a minimum schedule of salaries for all teachers employed in said schools; that defendants have refused to pay complainants and other teachers the minimum salaries provided in said Acts, and that they are entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the Mayor and Commissioners of Chattanooga to pay same, and…