Wayne County v. Hopper

Citations

• 114 Miss. 755
• 75 So. 766

Syllabus

<p>Schools and School Distkicts. Contract for employment of teacher. Statutes.</p> <p>Under Code 196, section 4541, making it unlawful for a county superintendent or trustees of a separate school district to contract with a teacher who does not hold a license valid for the scholastic year, and under Laws 1914, chapter .185, providing that all teachers in the agricultural high schools shall pass an examination in the free school studies, and an examination on the subject they are required to teach in such schools; where plaintiff was employed as a director and teacher in an agricultural high school, but had no license as required by chapter 185, Laws 1914, such a contract was indivisible and being unlawful in part because he had no license he could not recover on the contract for services . as director nor in such case could he recover on the theory of a quantum meruit.</p>