Cary v. Lower Merion School District

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This mandamus proceeding deals with the right of a School Board to retire a teacher on age.

That such right exists is beyond question. The Act of June 20, 1939, P. L. 482, amending section 1205 of the School Code of May 18, 1911, P. L. 309, provides “That from the effective date of this act until the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred forty-one, boards of school directors . . . may . . . terminate the service of any professional employe who has attained to the age of sixty-eight; from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred forty-one until,…