Mitchell v. Board of Education

Plaintiff, the former superintendent of defendant school district, brought this mandamus action against the district and the individual members of the district school board (defendants) to compel defendants to award him an employment contract for the 1981-82 school year. The trial court held that defendants had not timely notified plaintiff of his non-renewal for the 1981-82 school year as required by statute and were therefore required to employ him. From the resulting judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. We affirm.

Plaintiff was superintendent of schools of defendant school district…