School Directors v. Hudson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. Lyman Lacey, Judge, presiding. Miss Hudson was a teacher employed by the directors. Her duties required her to teach in a graded school—the pupils in a certain room. Without leave from the directors, she employed and procured another person to take her place temporarily as teacher of the pupils in her room, and absented herself from her post. This was at noon on Wednesday.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. Lyman Lacey, Judge, presiding. Miss Hudson was a teacher employed by the directors. Her duties required her to teach in a graded school—the pupils in a certain room. Without leave from the directors, she employed and procured another person to take her place temporarily as teacher of the pupils in her room, and absented herself from her post. This was at noon on Wednesday. On Thursday morning the acting principal of the school requested her to return to her duty at once, but she refused to do so until after a vacation which was to begin…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
This judgment must be reversed. When a teacher is selected 'and employed, the contract is for the personal services of that teacher. The teacher can not fulfill the contract by hiring a substitute. A temporary absence of a short time, with the temporary substitution of another competent teacher, might not, under certain circumstances, constitute such a breach of contract as would authorize the employers to consider the contract at an end. The circumstances might be such that the teacher would be warranted in assuming the approval thereof, or the consent thereto by the employers, without any…
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