Botts v. Simpson

This is an appeal from the order of the trial court sustaining respondents’ demurrer to appellant’s petition for a writ of mandate and from the judgment entered pursuant thereto, the appellant having failed to amend his petition within the time provided in said order.

The pleadings and record before us disclose that on June 30, 1943, and for a period of more than three years continuously prior thereto, appellant was regularly employed as a member of the faculty of the San Jose State College as a professor of chemistry. On that date, upon the recommendation of the respondent president of said…