Trilling v. Board of Higher Education

This is a proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act, in which the petitioner seeks, in effect, a declaration, among other things, that he is a regular member of the English Department in the day-session faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences- of City College, with full tenure rights as of May 20, 1931. Respondents have filed an amended answer to the petition, containing various defenses.

Prom 1923 to August, 1942, petitioner served in various capacities in the English Department of Townsend Harris, the preparatory high school of City College, rising to the grade of…