State ex rel. Thompson v. Board of School Directors

By her continuous service as teacher in the city schools of Milwaukee from 1914 the relator had acquired a .position and standing under the law regulating the tenure of office and the teachers’ retirement fund that was of value to her. State ex rel. Murphy v. Board of Trustees, 168 Wis. 238, 169 N. W. 562. This she would necessarily lose, or at least place in serious jeopardy, if her services as such teacher could be permanently suspended as was attempted to be done by the action of the school board here in question.

The only power the board of school directors had to dismiss the relator as…