O'Connor v. Hendrick
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Nora O’Connor, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, Patrick Hendrick, as sole trustee, etc., entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Livingston on the 3d day of April, 1905, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Livingston Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
The action is to recover the wages of plaintiff and her assignor as teachers in a public school, under contracts with the defendant trustee. The other defendants, taxpayers of the district, were brought into the action by reason of the relations between the teachers and *362the trustee, and ,the fear that the action would not be properly defended by the trustee alone. •
The defense to the plaintiff’s claim, in brief, is that the contracts of employment are invalid, because made in violation of the orders and instructions of the State…
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