Charity Hospital v. Board of School Directors

EE BLANC, Judge.

Our original opinion and decree herein which rejected the demands of the plaintiff (140 So. 60) was based on a misconception of what seems to be the absolute right to compensation of a person engaged in the service of the state or of any incorporated public board, under paragraph 1 of section 1 of Act No. 20 of 1914. We were led into error in construing a part of the title of the act in connection with that paragraph and in limiting the rights of such person by misapplying some of its language. We gave too broad a meaning to the phrase in that paragraph which reads “according…