State Ex Rel. Chapdelaine v. Torrence

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

This civil action arises under the college and university teachers tenure law (§ 49-1421, et seq. T.C.A.), and presents principally the dual questions of a university professor’s entitlement to tenure status and the remedies available for his wrongful dismissal. The Chancellor held that plaintiff was a tenurial teacher and awarded back pay, but declined to order reinstatement. All necessary and proper parties are before the Court.

I

As a threshold question we consider the defendants’ insistence that a previous suit instituted in the United States District Court in the…