Knox v. Woods
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The plaintiff was employed as a teacher in the common schools of San Francisco, and made out her accounts for salary for the months of May and June, 1856, which were duly audited and allowed, under the provisions of the law as then existing.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The plaintiff was employed as a teacher in the common schools of San Francisco, and made out her accounts for salary for the months of May and June, 1856, which were duly audited and allowed, under the provisions of the law as then existing. After the Consolidation Act took effect, she presented those audited demands to the defendant, treasurer of the city and county of San Francisco, for payment; which being refused, she applied to the Twelfth District Court for a writ of mandate. That Court…
1Opinion of the Court
Burnett, J., after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the Court—Field. J., concurring.
By the provisions of the third, sixth, seventh, thirteenth, and twenty-seventh sections of the act of 1855, to establish common schools, the school-moneys distributed to the various counties of this State, from the State school-fund, are specially set apart, in the hands of the county treasurers, for the payment of the salaries of qualified teachers. And, by the provisions of the second section of the Consolidation Act, the fund remains a special fund for the same purpose, in the hands of the…
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