Genesee Township Independent School District v. McDonald
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
June 20th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Mercur, Gordon, Paxson, Trunkey, Sterrett and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Potter county: Of May Term 1881, No. 126. This was, in the court below, an appeal from the judgment of an alderman in favor of Mary A. McDonald against the Genesee Township Independent School District, for $66, for wages as a school teacher under a contract with Henry Roache and others, acting as the board of school directors of said school…
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June 20th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Mercur, Gordon, Paxson, Trunkey, Sterrett and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Potter county: Of May Term 1881, No. 126. This was, in the court below, an appeal from the judgment of an alderman in favor of Mary A. McDonald against the Genesee Township Independent School District, for $66, for wages as a school teacher under a contract with Henry Roache and others, acting as the board of school directors of said school district. On the trial, before Wilson, A. L. J., the school district defended on the ground that the said Roache and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The plaintiff in error, defendant below, complains, and we think justly, of the refusal of the court below to receive and submit to the jury the following offers of evidence: “ 1. To prove by Thomas O’Donnell, the witness on the .stand, and others, and by the records of the township elections, that Thomas T. O’Donnell, Thomas M. Maxwell, ITenry Roaclie, John M. Moran, Thomas M. O’Donnell and John ITart, were elected school directors of said school district, and by the minutes of said school board that Bryan McGinnis was duly appointed a school director of said district. To be followed by the…
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