Curbelo v. MacOmb County Community College Trustees

This is a declaratory judgment case. Review of a declaratory judgment proceeding is de novo. McComb v McGomb, 9 Mich App 70, 74 (1967).

Plaintiff was employed by the defendant as an assistant professor of Spanish. His first two academic years were 1966-67 and 1967-68, during which time he had the usual probationary statusi. In March 1968, plaintiff was notified by the defendant that he had been granted a third probationary contract. While plaintiff indicated that he did not like this third year as a probationary teacher, nevertheless, he accepted the defendant’s offer in April 1968. In March…