Sheldon v. School Committee

This is a petition for mandamus to compel the respondent, the school committee of the town of Hopedale, to reinstate the petitioner as a teacher in the public schools of the town.

The following facts are agreed. The petitioner, then unmarried, was duly elected by the school committee of Hope-dale on July 12, 1922, as a grade school teacher. She was duly reelected in the three years following and, by virtue of G. L. c. 71, § 41, was thereby employed in the schools of the town thereafter to serve “at the discretion of the school committee” subject to the provisions of law regarding termination…