Riggins v. Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District

This is a mandamus proceeding in which petitioner secured an order of the superior court for the issuance of an alternative writ of mandamus directed to the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District commanding it to stay the operation of its order dismissing petitioner from his position as a probationary certificated employee, to wit, a teacher in the district, and commanding it to appear before the court and show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not be issued. The matter came on for trial on July 6, 1955, and the court, on July.22, 1955, rendered judgment that…