Briney

Respondent filed her petition seeking an order “directing said respondents by a peremptory writ of mandate to recognize said petitioner as a permanent teacher in said school district from the commencement of the school term in September, 1932, and that she be paid the salary to which she is entitled from said date, and be allowed to teach in said high school district as a permanent teacher in said high school district”. After a trial in which the material facts at issue were stipulated, a judgment was entered directing the issuance of the peremptory writ of mandate, as prayed for. The judgment contained a direction to appellants to pay to respondent the sum of $2,300 as salary for the school year, 1932-33.

It was stipulated at the trial that respondent was successfully employed by appellants as a teacher of the Santa Ana High School District for the two school years, 1929-30 and 1930-31. A third contract was entered into for the school year 1931-32, during which time she successfully taught in the appellant school. Her first contract was tendered her on June 18, 1929, wherein she was offered a salary of $2,100 a year and in which she was not classified as a substitute,…