Mootz v. Belyea

This is an application for a writ of mandamus addressed to the defendants as members of a school board, requiring them to install the petitioner as teacher in one of the schools in the district and to pay her according to an alleged contract for service.

We need not pass upon the disputed testimony. We take as true the facts stated by the appellant.

On the fifth day of July, 1930, the appellant, a school teacher, was employed by the school board of Dodd’s School District in Nelson County to teach School No. 2 in that district, for a term-of nine months beginning September 8, 1930, and her…