Board of Educ., Lincoln County v. MacQueen

McGRAW, Justice:

The petitioners, members of the Lincoln County Board of Education and the Superintendent of Lincoln County Schools, seek a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent, A. Andrew MacQueen, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, from proceeding in an action involving the 1981 demotion and transfer of Betty Jones1 from principal of Hamlin Elementary School to classroom teacher at McCorkle Grade School. Both Jones and the Lincoln County Board of Education initially petitioned for review of the State Superintendent’s decision in the Jones case, which disapproved her…