Kennedy v. School District No. 1

Citations

• 20 Wash. 399
• 55 P. 567
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 540

Syllabus

<p>SCHOOL DISTRICTS—EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHERS—RESCISSION—PLEADING AND PROOF.</p> <p>Where the only issue raised by the pleadings is an allegation and a denial of a contract of employment as a teacher, evidence of a rescission of the contract is inadmissible.</p> <p>Where a school board, after determining to reduce its corps of teachers from thirteen to twelve, for the ensuing year, passed a resolution re-employing all, but reserving the right to remove one of the teachers, in case all accepted, the action of the board in requesting one of the teachers to resign after she had accepted the contract of employment, was not equivalent to a removal.</p>