Hopkins v. Inhabitants of Bucksport
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. An action of assumpsit to recover of the town of Bucksport the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars, which plaintiff, alleges would have been due her as wages as school teacher under her contract with defendant for the school year beginning September, 1918, had she not been dismissed by the Superintending School Committee of defendant town, prior to the time she was to begin her services under the contract.
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On report. An action of assumpsit to recover of the town of Bucksport the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars, which plaintiff, alleges would have been due her as wages as school teacher under her contract with defendant for the school year beginning September, 1918, had she not been dismissed by the Superintending School Committee of defendant town, prior to the time she was to begin her services under the contract. The defendant filed the general issue, and a brief statement that the Superintending School' Committee of the defendant town had dismissed plaintiff under authority of Chap.…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrill, J.
It appears in this case that the plaintiff, a teacher of seventeen years experience, was duly employed to teach the West Side Intermediate school in the defendant town for the year beginning in September, 1918, and that before the school opened in September she was dismissed by the Superintending School Committee; that she had the necessary certificate for teaching and was qualified to teach is admitted. In justification of the action of the committee, the defendant relies upon R. S., Chap. 16, Sec. 38, Par. III which reads as follows:
“Sec. 38. Superintending school committees shall perform…
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