Beard

It appears that petitioner is an optometrist duly qualified and licensed to practice as such under the laws of the state of California; that on March 17, 1916, the board of education of the city of Sacramento employed petitioner as such optometrist, at a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars a year, to examine pupils of the public schools of said city in order to discover any visual defects of said pupils in order that such defects, if existing, might be corrected; that petitioner ever since has been and now is so employed, and has fully performed all services required of him by reason of such employment; that respondent during all of said time has been and is now the county superintendent of schools of Sacramento County; that on or about the twenty-eighth day of July, 1917, said board of education of the city of Sacramento made its order upon said Caroline M. Webb, as such county superintendent, to draw her requisition upon the county auditor of said county for the payment of the salary due petitioner for the month of July, 1917, for services performed under said employment, but respondent refused, and ever since has refused, to draw said requisition; that similar action was…