Burke v. Wilkes-Barre Township School District

Citations

• 28 Pa. Super. 16
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 124

Syllabus

<p>School law — Directors—Recording of vote — Employment of teachers — Act of April 11, 1862, P. L. 471.</p> <p>Where the minutes of a school board show that “all members answered the roll call,” and that a contract for the employment of a teacher was authorized, “all members voting in the affirmative,” the validity of the contract cannot be attacked on the ground that the names of the members voting were not recorded in the minutes. In such a case the minutes substantially comply with the spirit of the Act of April 11, 1862, P. L. 471.</p> <p>School law — Employment of teachers — Act of June 25, 1885, P. L. 175. '</p> <p>Under the Act of June 25, 1885, P. L. 175, a local school board of a township may elect a properly qualified teacher for an ordinary common school for three successive school terms. In the expression in the act “public high and state normal schools,” the court will not construe the word “public” as simply qualifying the word “high,” inasmuch as there was no authority in townships to establish high schools until the passage of the Act of June 28, 1895, P. L. 413.</p>