Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wesenberg v. Bethlehem School District

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

On August 16, 1940, E. E. Wesenberg presented to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County a petition for writ of alternative mandamus directed to the Board of School Directors of the School District of the City of Bethlehem and the officers of the board to compel the payment of two semi-monthly, installments of salary and fractions of an annual increment for the month of July, 1940. An alternative writ was issued commanding the defendants to show cause. The motion to quash the writ was dismissed, and defendants thereupon filed a return to which relator 1 demurred.…