Board of Trustees of School District No. 9 v. Superintendent of Public Instruction

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a judgment of the district court, Lewis and Clark County, wherein the reinstatement of appellant Grant R. Gallup, as a teacher for the remainder of his 1973-74 contract, by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction was reversed.

In the spring of 1973, appellant had been employed as a teacher by respondent Board of Trustees, for nine consecutive years. At this time he was offered and he accepted a teaching contract for the 1973-74 school year.

On August 30 and 31, 1973 the school district conducted a…