Donald Lang Kenneth Beck Michael Erickson, Cross-Appellants v. Great Falls School District No. 1 and A, Cross-Appellee

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

This case involves re-employed veterans’ statutory right to employment benefits.

Lang, Beck, and Erickson taught for the Great Falls School District until the summer of 1970 when they resigned to serve in the armed forces. The District’s teachers were employed under individual teaching contracts, and their compensation was determined according to a salary schedule. The schedule consisted of incremental steps with teachers’ pay usually increasing at each succeeding step. 1 Teachers advanced one step for each year of teaching experience (135 days of teaching).

After…