Walter v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF QUINCY SCHOOL DIST.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Where an administrative officer or board has arbitrarily failed to act, mandamus will lie to compel that officer or board to perform a duty which the plaintiff is entitled to have performed.”
• in mandamus proceeding by tenured teacher seeking reinstatement and damages, “damages which amount to a claim for back salary are not a mere incident to the complaint for reinstatement but constitute a separate claim” that survives plaintiff’s death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).