Allison v. Board of Education

Citations

• 125 Cal. 72
• 57 P. 673
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 802

Syllabus

<p>Board of Education—Employment of Janitor—Preference of Ex-Union Soldiers—Mandamus.—An ex-Union soldier who was employed for one year as janitor by the board of education of a school district, and who, after the expiration of his term of employment, was superseded by another appointee, not preferred under the act of March 31, 1891, providing for the preference of honorably discharged ex-Union soldiers,, sailors, and marines of the war of the Rebellion, in appointments for public office, cannot maintain a proceeding in mandate to compel a preference of himself for the appointment without a showing that he was the only man coming under the provisions of the act who was desirous of the appointment.</p>