Gastineau

Upon hearing of a petition for a writ of mandamus the court found that this respondent was a permanent teacher in the Calaveras Union High School District in the school year of 1931-1932, and that he is entitled to the annual salary of $1900, as compensation for services performed during that school year, payable in ten equal installments of $190 each, beginning with September, 1931. A decree and writ of mandamus was accordingly issued, directing the board of trustees to pay petitioner that salary. From this decree the trustees have appealed.

The respondent was regularly employed by the board of trustees of the Calaveras Union High School District in June, 1925, as principal of that school, with the requirement that he was also to teach certain designated subjects each day, at a salary of $2,600 a year. The school had an average daily attendance of less than 850 pupils. The respondent was employed in the same capacity from year to year to and including the school year 1930-31 at an increase of salary, which finally amounted to the annual sum of $2,850 for the last-mentioned year. As a part of his, duty, he was required by the board to, and did, regularly teach several subjects,…