Springer v. Board of Education of Ohio County

Maxwell, Judge:

This is a writ of error to an order of the circuit court of Ohio County awarding a peretnptory writ of mandamus requiring the respondents, Board of Education of Ohio County and Thomas B. Foulk, its president, to pay to the relator, Z. W. Springer, the sum of $1750.00, alleged balance of salary of the relator as County Superintendent of Schools for said county for the last ten months of his term of office, which expired June 30, 1935.

Relator was elected to said office at the general election of 1930, and entered upon the discharge of his duties July 1, 1931. He was thus engaged…