Colobro v. Mercer County Board of Education

This is an appeal by Jackson Colobro from an order of the Circuit Court of Mercer County denying the appellant’s petition for mandamus relief in a controversy involving the filling of a vacant teacher position in the Mercer County school system. The circuit court denied relief on the ground that the appellant had unreasonably delayed in filing his application for a writ of mandamus. On appeal, the appellant claims that the circuit court, in effect, denied him relief on the ground of laches and that such a denial was improper since the defendant, named in this action as the Mercer County Board…