Dore v. Billings
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions from the Western District Court, Goodenow J. presiding. The whole of the evidence introduced at the trial is given in the exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion of the Court. It was all on the part of the plaintiffs. The presiding Judge ruled that the action could not be maintained, and ordered a nonsuit.
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Exceptions from the Western District Court, Goodenow J. presiding. The whole of the evidence introduced at the trial is given in the exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion of the Court. It was all on the part of the plaintiffs. The presiding Judge ruled that the action could not be maintained, and ordered a nonsuit. The plaintiffs filed exceptions. said that there appeared to be misapprehension in some towns respecting the powers and duties of towns and school districts and school district agents, and in North Berwick among the rest. The assignment of the amount to which…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Sjiepley J.
— The defendant, having been legally chosen agent for school district numbered seven in the town of North *59Berwick for the year 1843, employed Boreas S. Butler, now the wife of the other plaintiff, to teach school in that district during a part of the winter of 1843-4. The district had appropriated its share of the school money for the support of such school. She appears to have performed her duties acceptably and according to her contract. She did not obtain the certificates required by the statute, and cannot therefore maintain any suit…
2Cited by3 opinions
- Perkins v. Inhabitants of StandishSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1948
- School District No. 1 v. RossColorado Court of Appeals · 1894
- School District No. 1 v. RossColorado Court of Appeals · 1894