Bates v. Board of Education

This is an appeal from the judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s application for a writ of mandate.

It appears from the findings in the case that on August 12, 1896, the board of education of the city and county of San Francisco, defendant and respondent herein, at a regular meeting, adopted the report of its committee on classification, and thereupon appointed the plaintiff and appellant to the position of teacher of the high-school class to be formed in the Horace Mann evening school, and thereafter, on August 26th, by resolution, discontinued said Horace Mann evening school, and transferred…