State ex rel. Herbert v. Downey

FINCH, Judge.

Relators, teachers in the Parkway School District of St. Louis County, brought this action in mandamus against members of the board of education of said district (hereinafter called respondents) to compel the board to pay to teachers compensation over and above that called for in their contracts because of alleged failure of the board to expend the proper amount of minimum guarantee funds allocated by the State Department of Education for the 1974 — 75 year.1 The petition alleged failure to com*474ply with the provisions of § 163.031(9).2 After a hearing the trial court denied…