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This is an appeal from a judgment denying the application of the plaintiff for the issuance of a writ of mandate to be directed to the defendant, as superintendent of schools of the county of San Mateo, requiring him to appprove a warrant drawn in favor of the plaintiff by the board of school trustees of the Half moon Bay Union High School district in said county.

The facts leading up to the issuance of such warrant by said board are substantially as follows: On June 7, 1913, the said board of school trustees elected the said plaintiff principal of said high school for the school year commencing on July 1, 1913, at an annual salary of one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. On July 12, 1913, the board notified the plaintiff that it would not carry out its contract with him, and proceeded to elect another principal. Thereafter the plaintiff demanded of said board that it abide by its contract with him, or pay "him the damages he had sustained through its breach. Negotiations followed, which presently resulted in an agreement of compromise between the plaintiff and the board, by which the former agreed to accept the sum of two hundred dollars in full settlement of his claim…