Gates v. Board of Education of River Local School District

Jurisdiction of these cases was assumed because the facts indicated a substantial question involving public interest, as that term was construed by the delegates to the Constitutional- Convention of 1912, that is, an interpretation of Section 3319.081, Revised Code,1 relating to the employment of nonteaching personnel by a local board of education, of which there are hundreds in the state.

Thomas A. Gates and Walter J. Nippert, plaintiffs to declaratory judgments in the Common Pleas Court of Monroe *85County, from the affirmance of which these appeals are pursued, were nonteaching employees…