Reed v. Board of Education of Monterey Union High School District

Plaintiff sued for mandamus to compel the defendants to reassign her to duty in the Monterey High School. She had judgment and defendants appeal upon typewritten transcripts.

The trial court found that plaintiff had been employed as a teacher for three consecutive school years prior to June 11, 1931, and that on June 15, 1931, she received a letter from the clerk of the Board of Education by ordinary unregistered mail declaring her position vacant. The conceded facts are that prior to June 6, 1931, the respondent had numerous conversations with the superintendent of schools and with the…