School Directors v. Birch
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, for teacher’s wages. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island County; the Hon. William H. G-est, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1900.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
The school directors of district number one, in township sixteen, range two west, in Eoolc Island county, hired C. II. Birch to teach school in their district nine months at thirty-five dollars per month. He taught four months, and was paid in full therefor. The directors then discharged him for negligence in the performance of his duties, the particular negligence, for which they had repeatedly admonished him, and tivice requested his resignation, being tardiness at school. After the expiration of the term for which he had been hired, he brought this suit to recover wages therefor. The…
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