Swisher v. Darden

COMPTON, Chief Justice.

This is an action in mandamus instituted by appellees to compel appellants to issue a teaching contract to appellee Mary Alice Swisher, a teacher with tenure in the Las Cruces Union High School System. In their return to the Writ, respondents defend their action on the ground that the Booker T. Washington School in which she had been teaching had been discontinued as an economy measure and that there was no other position or assignment available in the system by which her further services could be utilized. Following a hearing before the court, the Writ was made…