Shinners v. City of St. Paul

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from an order denying her motion for new trial.

This is another teacher’s salary case. The facts are not in substantial dispute and may be thus summarized: Plaintiff is a qualified teacher and had been employed as such in the public school system of St. Paul since November, 1921, until in the spring of 1932, “when the preference cards go out for teachers to sign” and she was not given any such by the principal but told that she should see Superintendent Hartwell. She did so.

“I talked over the matter with him, giving him the term of years I had served…