Edinboro Normal School v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 471, Jan. T., 1892, from decree of C. P. Erie Co., May T., 1892, No. '2, in equity, enjoining appellant from assuming position of principal of state normal school, etc.
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Appeal No. 471, Jan. T., 1892, from decree of C. P. Erie Co., May T., 1892, No. '2, in equity, enjoining appellant from assuming position of principal of state normal school, etc. The bill, after setting forth the origin of the school, etc., alleged that defendant was not regularly employed as principal of the school because the yeas and nays had not been called by the board of trustees, and that he was dismissed, Feb. 5, 1891, by the action of the board, on account of immorality and negligence. The minutes of the board, made a part of the bill, showed the alleged immoral conduct to be the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb,. Justice Williams,
The appellant had been for many years the principal of the State Normal School of the 12th District of Pennsylvania, located at Edinboro in the county of Erie. On July 3, 1891, he was regularly re-elected by the trustees to the same position. When the work of the school year began he was in his place discharging the duties devolving on him as principal without objection. On Feb. 5, 1892, the trustees adopted and spread at length on their minutes a resolution dismissing him from his position because of immoral conduct, which they specified in four distinct…