Birch v. Monroe

This appeal is from the judgment herein denying plaintiff’s petition for a writ of mandate.

The plaintiff was a teacher in the Willows Union School District during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923. The board of trustees of the district issued to him an order for the payment of his last month’s salary in the sum of $191.66, payable out of the teachers’ salary fund. The county superintendent duly examined and approved the demand, but the defendant county auditor refused to allow the same. Plaintiff alleged that there was in the funds of the district “a sufficient sum not otherwise…