Pittsburgh School District Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The long and checkered history of this controversy, which is concerned with the status of a public school teacher in Pittsburgh and is here on appeal from the Superior Court, begins in 1931. In that year John B. Melvin, a resident of the State of Illinois, applied for a teaching position in the “Commercial Department of the Pittsburgh Public Schools.” At that time all com mercial subjects, generally speaking, were included in the junior high school curriculum. At a meeting of the Board of Public Education of the Pittsburgh School District on September 22,…