Dexter v. Board of Higher Education

The first partial defense shows on its face that the plaintiff was appointed in fact not for temporary service but for service on an annual basis; that such appointment of plaintiff was continuous for over ten years; and that plaintiff’s salary increments ceased on January 1, 1932, not because he was a so-called “ temporary instructor ” (no such classification existing), but because he had not been granted a Ph. D. degree. The defense therefore is that defendant had a bylaw requiring a Ph. D. degree for instructors and plaintiff did not have such degree. In Matter of Adams v. Board of Higher…