Ireland v. Board of Education

Maxwell, Judge:

There is presented on this certification the question of the correctness of the trial court’s ruling in sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the special count of plaintiff’s declaration. The declaration also embraces common counts, not here involved.

The plaintiff is a practicing physician. He alleges in his special count that on the 12th of May, 1933, the board of education of Charleston Independent School District, by written contract, employed him at a salary of $162.00 per month as medical officer for said board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1933, and ending June 30,…