Daley v. Town of West Brookfield

The plaintiff, the former school superintendent of school union 12 (see G. L. c. 71, § 61), appeals from a summary judgment in favor of the three towns forming the union. The plaintiff had sought damages for breach of a contract he had with the union’s school committee dated August 19,1981.

The only breach claimed on appeal is that the West Brookfield elementary school was removed from the plaintiff’s superintendency prior to the end of the school year. This, he argues, is a breach because it permitted “a de facto dissolution of School Union 12 to take place prior to the end of his contract…