Marler v. Wear

The petition for mandamus in this case was filed in the circuit court of James county, to compel the directors of a school district to issue a warrant to the petitioner Carrie Wear, a school teacher, for salary claimed to have been earned during the scholastic year terminating June 30, 1905. An alternative writ was awarded, and issued in due course, to which the directors filed an answer or return, in which they denied the leading facts alleged, and demanded a jury for the trial of the cause. This demand was refused. After hearing the evidence, his honor rendered a judgment in favor of the…