Seidel v. Board of Education of Ventnor City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

Prosecutrix challenges the legal propriety of her dismissal as a public school teacher in Ventnor City, on the ground of three years’ service and the resulting status of indefinite tenure. Pamph. L. 1909, p. 398; Comp. Stat., p. 4763. The answer made is that the board of education abolished her position in the interest of econ'omy. She replies that the abolition was no more than the reduction by one teacher of the teaching force in the public school, and that she was entitled to remain as teacher in preference to others who had not come under…