Barnhardt

This cause is before us upon an appeal by the respondents from a judgment of the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Plumas, awarding the plaintiff the sum of $1600 and directing that she be reinstated as a permanent teacher in the Laws School District in the County of Plumas.

The record shows that on or about June 14, 1930, the petitioner was employed by what is now known as Laws School District of Plumas County, by written contract, as a teacher of elementary grades therein. The contract contained these words: “a permanent employee”. In May, 1931, the petitioner was reemployed in the same capacity for the ensuing year, by a contract containing a provision that she was classified as a “permanent employee”. The school where the petitioner was .employed to teach had a regular daily attendance of less than 850 pupils. The school district was represented at all times by a board of trustees, consisting of three members. For the following two years it appears that the plaintiff acted as a teacher in the same school, the only change being that her compensation was somewhat reduced. For the two years just mentioned no contract existed between the…