Wilson v. Waltersville School District
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Special Assumpsit for breach of a contract to employ the plaintiff as a school-teacher, with a count in general assumpsit for services rendered; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury on the general issue, with notice, before Hitchcoelc, J. Yerdict for the defendants, and motion for a new trial by the plaintiff for error in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This action was brought to recover damages for the refusal, on the part of the defendants, to receive the services of the plaintiff, as principal of a public school in the defendant district, in violation of an alleged contract in writing signed by the plaintiff and by two members of the district committee.
One point of the defence made at the trial was that the committee consisted of three-members, and that two of them, without the knowledge of the other, fraudulently conspired and colluded with the plaintiff to make the pretended contract, knowing at the time that it was against the wishes…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hayden v. NoyesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1824
- Willard v. Warden of KillingworthSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1830
3Cited by1 opinion
- Harris v. City of AnsoniaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900