Bradley

This is an appeal from a judgment against appellant on a demurrer to her petition for a writ of mandate, to be directed to the board of education of the city and county of San Francisco, requiring said board to restore her to the position of regular teacher of industrial drawing in the public schools of said city and county.

Appellant’s petition alleges that ever since the sixth day of December, 1875, she was the holder of a drawing-teacher’s city certificate, issued, and from time to time renewed, by said board of education, authorizing her to teach drawing in the public schools of said city and county. That on the eighth day of July, 1891, she was duly elected a regular teacher of industrial drawing in the department of schools of said city and county, and so continued until the first day of June, 1897, when her position was by the said board of education declared vacant, and she was by said board dismissed from her said position, without any charges or complaint being made of insubordination, unprofessional conduct, profanity, intemperance, or unfitness for teaching. Her salary as such teacher of industrial drawing at the time of her dismissal was one hundred and forty dollars…