Tomlin v. Glassboro Board of Education
Tomlin v. Glassboro Board of Education
Opinion of the Court
This is a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue compelling the respondent to pay the relator his salary as a school teacher. The relator was employed by the respondent in the-year 1918 as a teacher in one of the public schools of the respondent and served until September 27th, 1922. The respondent attempted to dismiss him and paid him up to October 6th, 1922. The relator appealed to the state commissioner of education from this action, who determined that the relator be reinstated in his position as teacher, and his salary paid from the date of his dismissal, October 6th, 1922, until the.expiration of his contract or as long as the printing course was legally in existence in the Glassboro public schools. This order of the commissioner was never appealed from, but the hoard refused to reinstate him or to pay his salary, and thereupon this rule was allowed.
The record shows that on February 21st, 1923, the board of education by resolution discontinued the printing course, and for that reason dismissed the relator. What he now claims is that he is entitled under the order of the commissioner of education to be paid his salary from October 6th, 1922, until the expiration of his contract. It also shows that between the two periods the relator obtained employment elsewhere for which he was paid compensation, and the respondents admitting that they are required to obe3r the order of the commissioner of education, insist that they should be credited with whatever the relator earned during that period, which the record shows was more than his salary as school teacher, and therefore if the respondents are right in their contention that they are entitled to that credit there
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