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plaintiff was given judgment and the defendant has appealed therefrom.

The complaint alleges that on or about the twelfth day of May, 1923, the plaintiff and the board of trustees of the defendant district “entered into an agreement whereby plaintiff was employed as principal in the said Mantón Joint Union School District at a salary of two thousand dollars per year payable as follows: $200 per month for ten months beginning such payments on October 3rd, 1923; . . . that pursuant to said agreement plaintiff performed the duties of principal of said Mantón Joint Union School District continuously from the 10th day of September, 1923, to the 10th day of March, 1924,. at which time the said board of trustees wrongfully and without any cause discharged plaintiff and refused to permit him to perform the duties of principal any longer; . . . That under said agreement said board, of trustees have paid plaintiff the sum of twelve hundred dollars and no more, and by reason of the discharge of plaintiff as aforesaid, plaintiff has been damaged in the sum of eight hundred dollars.”

The answer admits the employment and the performance by the plaintiff of services thereunder up to the tenth…