Head v. The University
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Missouri. Head, late professor of mathematics and also librarian iu the University of Missouri, brought suit against the said university to recover salary, alleged by him to be due to him. The case was thus : In 1820 the United States made a grant of land for the purpose of enabling the State of Missouri to establish and support an institution of learning.
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Error to the Supreme Court of Missouri. Head, late professor of mathematics and also librarian iu the University of Missouri, brought suit against the said university to recover salary, alleged by him to be due to him. The case was thus : In 1820 the United States made a grant of land for the purpose of enabling the State of Missouri to establish and support an institution of learning. The title to the grant was vested in the legislature of the State to be by it applied solely to the use of a seminary of learning. The legislature complied with the conditions of the act of Congress making the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
We are of the opinion that the questions raised by the plaintiff in error are not presented by the facts of the case before us.
The plaintiff was elected a professor of mathematics in the University of Missouri, and it was resolved that he should hold his office for six years from July 5th, 1856, “subject to law,” ‘The judge at the circuit held, and we think correctly, that this expression meant subject to whatever law the State legislature might think fit to pass.
On the 17th of December, 1859, the legislature did pass an act, vacating the offices of all “the professors, tutors, and teachers…
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