People Ex Rel. v. Board of Education

Sarhuel Leland, a teacher in the public schools of the city of Chicago for more than fifteen years, presented his petition to the circuit court of Cook county praying for a .writ of mandamus commanding the board of education to re-instate him as a teacher in the public schools and restore him to the standing and compensation which he had enjoyed and received as such teacher on April 6, 1926, — the date of his transfer from regular class-room or supervisory service and assignment to the class of service known as the “emeritus service,” pursuant to a rule of the board of education adopted on…