Brightman v. Board of Education

A petition was filed in the superior court by Georgia Bliss and Winifred Brightman seeking a writ of mandate to compel the respondents to reinstate them and permit them to serve as “permanent teachers’’. The respondents answered and a trial was had which resulted in a judgment in favor of respondents. An appeal was taken by said petitioners from said judgment but the petitioner Georgia Bliss has since dismissed her appeal, leaving Winifred Brightman as the sole appellant.

The respondent Board of Education of the City of Berkeley constitutes the governing board of both the Berkeley School…