Wilson v. Board of Education

A. M. Wilson filed a petition for writ of mandamus against the board of education of school district No. 126 in Union township in the county of Madison, and Ralph Z. Miller, president of said board of education, and the members thereof, for the purpose of requiring. petitioner to be reinstated as superintendent of schools, and to have paid to him his previous salary, upon the claim that he was entitled to such by reason of the provisions of the Teachers Tenure Law. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1945, chap. 122, sec. 24-2.) The circuit court granted the writ, and found the amount due to be the sum of…