Mingo v. Trustees Colored School Dist. A.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 62 — Action by J. H. Mingo against Colored Common School District A. or Garrard County to Recover Damages for Breach of Contract. APPEAL FROM GARRARD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendants and. Plaintiff Appeals.
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Case 62 — Action by J. H. Mingo against Colored Common School District A. or Garrard County to Recover Damages for Breach of Contract. APPEAL FROM GARRARD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendants and. Plaintiff Appeals. By their demurrers the appellees admit the truth of the allegations of the petition that the trustees of colored common school district A. made, in writing, a contract with appellant to teach the public school for the present year, that he was qualified to teach and offered to teach but was prevented by the trustees from doing so. We contend that the contract thus made in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE PAYNTER
Affirming.
A demurrer to the petition as amended was sustained, and, the plaintiff (appellant) failing to plead further, the court dismissed the petition. It was substantially averred in the petition by the appellant that he and the trustees of colored common-school district No. A, on July 6. 1901, entered into a written contract by which he was employed to *477act as principal of the colored common school for the period of eight months, at the agreed compensation of 60 per cent, of the public money due the district; that at the time.fixed for commencing the…
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