McCutchen v. Windsor
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jlppeal from Cooper Circuit Court. “If the defendants as directors of the sub-district employed plaintiff as teacher, they had the right in their official capacity in behalf of the sub-district to discharge him, and are not personally liable for such act.” The power to manage and control the local interests and affairs of the suh-district is vested in the directors by statute. (Wagn.
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Jlppeal from Cooper Circuit Court. “If the defendants as directors of the sub-district employed plaintiff as teacher, they had the right in their official capacity in behalf of the sub-district to discharge him, and are not personally liable for such act.” The power to manage and control the local interests and affairs of the suh-district is vested in the directors by statute. (Wagn. Stat., 1243, § 7.) It is a broad and general' power without qualification, embracing in its range the employment of teachers, and the necessary incident or implied power of removing them whenever the directors…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This was an action against the defendants, two local directors of a school sub-district in Cooper county. The plaintiff alleged in his petition, that on the 30th day of October, 1871, he, having the proper certificate of qualifications, entered into a contract in writing with the defendants as directors of the sub-district to teach a school for' the term of five months, for the sum of fifty dollars per month; that he entered upon *151the discharge of his duties under the contract, and taught the school for one month; that afterwards, about the 27th of November, 1871, and before the expiration of…
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