O'Connor v. . Hendrick
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered December 7, 1905, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a decision of the court at a Trial Term without a jury.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered December 7, 1905, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a decision of the court at a Trial Term without a jury. The plaintiff and Elizabeth E. Dowd, being teachers duly licensed to teach in the common schools of this state, entered into contracts with the board of trustees of school district Mo. 9, in the town of Lima, county of Livingston, in the autumn of 1902, to teach in the public school of said district for a term of thirty-six consecutive weeks at a…
1Opinion of the CourtWillard Bartlett, J.
The real question in this case is whether the plaintiff and the plaintiff’s assignor lost their right to any further compensation under their contract of service as teachers, by reason of their refusal to comply with a regulation established by the state superintendent of public instruction which in effect prohibited teachers from wearing a distinctive religious garb while engaged in the work of teaching.
The order made by the superintendent on the subject was in form the decision of an appeal. The Consolidated School Law as then in force provided for certain appeals to the state…
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