Sandor v. Nyquist

This appeal presents the issue of whether a Board of Education which dismissed petitioner, following a hearing on charges of inefficiency and neglect of duty, is an indispensable party to a proceeding seeking review of the decision of the Commissioner of Education sustaining the dismissal so as to render jurisdictionally defective the failure to properly serve it within the four-month Statute of Limitations.

Petitioner, a tenured English teacher employed in the Williamsville School District since 1967, was dismissed after a hearing at the conclusion of which he was found guilty of inefficiency…