Hopkins

The plaintiff herein was awarded in the trial court a writ of mandate to compel the payment to her of certain money which she alleged was due her for three months’ services as librarian for the Whittier Union High School District. She alleges that she was employed by the board of trustees of said district on the fourth day of June, 1915. This employment was denied on the part of the defendants, and it was alleged affirmatively that there had been an offer made to the plaintiff to employ her in the capacity of librarian, said offer being made with the express condition that notice of acceptance should' be furnished within twenty days, and that no such notice was furnished within said time. On behalf of the plaintiff there was introduced in evidence a minute record of the board of trustees of a meeting held on June 4, 1915, wherein the employment of various persons as teachers and in other capacities was recorded, the plaintiff being one of the number mentioned in that minute. Upon this proof plaintiff rested as having made out a prima facie case. In the answer a copy of the document which it was alleged had been sent to the plaintiff, notifying her of her employment as librarian,…