Whitehead v. North H. Sch. D.
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Westmoreland County
No. 88 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 586 May Term 1888, C. P. On April 28, 1888, Jacob E. Whitehead brought assumpsit against the school district of North Huntingdon township.
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No. 88 October Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 586 May Term 1888, C. P. On April 28, 1888, Jacob E. Whitehead brought assumpsit against the school district of North Huntingdon township. The plaintiff’s statement of claim, verified by his affidavit and filed with the prsecipe, averred in substance that by a contract in writing the defendant school district employed the plaintiff to teach in Byerly school house No. 4, for a term of seven months beginning in September, 1887, at a salary of $40 per month; that the plaintiff entered upon the performance of his duties as a teacher at said…
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Opinion,
Mb. Justice Clark :
Section 4, act of April 11, 1862, P. L. 471, declares that “ no tax for school or building purposes shall be levied, no resol u*426tion shall be adopted for the purchase or sale of any school real estate, no sehoolhouse shall be located or its location abandoned or changed, no teacher shall be appointed or dismissed, .... except by the affirmative votes of a majority of the whole number of directors or controllers thereof; and in each of said cases, the names of the members voting both in the affirmative and negative shall be so entered on the minutes of the board by…
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