Lyndall v. High School Committee
Lyndall v. High School Committee
Opinion of the Court
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This is an appeal from a decree refusing a preliminary injunction and dismissing the plaintiff’s bill. The prayers of the bill were, that an injunction be granted enjoining and restraining the defendants from in any manner interfering with the plaintiff in continuing as a teacher in the high school for girls., or suspending her, and from any further proceedings looking toward the suspension of or interference with the plaintiff, in any way, as teacher, until further order of the court. At the-time the motion was heard the plaintiff had been suspended by direction of the chairman of the committee on high school for girls, because she refused to comply with the provisions of a resolution of the committee on hygiene relative to vaccination of teachers, which action of the committee was subsequently approved by the board of public education. After the hearing of the motion, but before the decree was made, an answer was filed in which it appeared that the action of the chairman in suspending the plaintiff was unanimously approved by the committee on hygiene and the committee on high school for girls. It is thus seen , that as matters stood at the time the decree was made, the practical effect of awarding an injunction would have been to reinstate the plaintiff. We cannot assent
The third assignment of error relates to the dismissal of the bill. It is to be borne in mind that the cause had not been set down by the plaintiff for hearing on bill and answer, nor had the defendant demurred. The only matter before the court was the motion for a preliminary injunction. This being the status of the case it was irregular to dismiss the bill: Buck Mountain Coal Company’s Appeal, 5 W. N. C. 309. We know of no case deciding differently; certainly the cases cited in the appellee’s brief do not.
That part of the decree dismissing the bill is set aside., As thus modified and amended the decree is affirmed, the costs to abide the determination of the suit.
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- School law — Teachers— Vaccination — Injunction. School directors have the power to suspend a teacher because she refused to comply with a regulation of the board requiring teachers to be vaccinated. Equity — Practice, C. P. —Injunction—Dismissal of bill. The court has no power to dismiss a bill in equity at the same time that it refuses a preliminary injunction, where it appeal's that the defendant had not demurred to the bill, nor set the case down for hearing on bill and answer, and that the only matter before the court was the motion for a preliminary injunction.