Stevens v. Board of Regents

Stolz, Judge.

In this contract action for damages brought by a professor previously employed at Georgia State College (now University) by the defendant Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the essential element of the existence of the employment contract could be proved only by establishing that the plaintiff was not properly notified in 1968 that he would not receive a contract for the next academic year. This identical issue having been adjudicated by these parties in Fulton Superior Court, the former adjudication, unreversed, is binding, and the doctrine of estoppel by…