Bates v. Board of Education

This is an appeal from the judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s application for a writ of mandate.

It appears from the findings in the case that on August 12, 1896, the board of education of the city and county of San Francisco, defendant and respondent herein, at a regular meeting, adopted the report of its committee on classification, and thereupon appointed the plaintiff and appellant to the position of teacher of the high-school class to be formed in the Horace Mann evening school, and thereafter, on August 26th, by resolution, discontinued said Horace Mann evening school, and transferred the plaintiff and appellant to the Franklin evening school, and on September 30th of the same year assigned the plaintiff to “teach Latin and French during one half of each day in the high-school class in the Horace Mann grammar school,” and that thereafter such high-school class was transferred to and became a part of the Mission High School. It further appears from the findings that the plaintiff accepted such employment, and became, and was thereafter, until the first day of September, 1900, assistant teacher of Latin and' French in the Mission High School of said city and county; that on…