School District No. 1 v. Ross

Mary Ross sued School District No. 1, of San Juan county, to recover three hundred dollars as damages for the breach of a contract with the school district, whereby she was employed as a teacher for the school year between September, 1891, and the following June. In her complaint she set up the .contract, stated a breach committed by a wrongful discharge by the board three months prior to the expiration of her school year, a readiness on her part to perform, and prayed a judgment of three hundred dollars, which would be the equivalent of the three months’ stipulated salary. The district set…