Jones v. Nebraska City
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was a petition in error filed to review a judgment of the District Court for Otoe county. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. among others not considered by the court, argued the following points: II. The contract was for one year’s service for a fixed price for the term.
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This was a petition in error filed to review a judgment of the District Court for Otoe county. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. among others not considered by the court, argued the following points: II. The contract was for one year’s service for a fixed price for the term. It was an entire contract, and the defendants could not without some fault or misconduct of the plaintiff discharge him and terminate the contract before the end of the school year, and having dismissed the plaintiff before the end of the term and prevented him from rendering the service stipulated for the…
1Opinion of the CourtCrounse, J.
The plaintiff alleges that he was duly employed by the Board of Education of Nebraska City, as principal, to teach the High School in said City for a period of ten months for a salary of fifteen hundred dollars, and that after teaching six months, "said Board, without reasonable or sufficient cause, stopped the schools and dismissed the plaintiff, paying him for the six months at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per month. This action was brought to recover damages for such dismissal. To the petition a demurrer was interposed, which was sustained.
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