Cheeseman v. Board of Education

The writ of certiorari in this ease is prosecuted for the purpose of reviewing the legality of the action of the Gloucester city board of education in transferring the prosecutrix, Miss Helen G. Cheeseman, from principal teacher of the seventh and eighth grades at the Monmouth street school in Gloucester city, to be principal teacher of the fifth and sixth grades of the Cumberland street school in said city, and the action of that board in dismissing Miss Cheeseman for insubordination in refusing to obey the order of transfer.

Miss Cheeseman had bepn for some nineteen years a teacher in the…