STATE EX REL. FIELDS v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

No. 41757.

79 So.2d 312 (1955)

227 La. 290

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Richard FIELDS, Husband of Sallie Fields, v. RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 21, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben F. Thompson, A. M. D'Angelo, Dewitt T. Methvin, Jr., Alexandria, for appellant.

Louis Berry, Alexandria, Vanue B. Lacour, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

This is a mandamus proceeding having for its purpose the reinstatement of a school teacher and recovery of her back salary. The case was originally brought on January 20, 1951, on the relation of Sallie Holmes Fields, who alleges that she is and has been a permanent teacher in the public schools of Rapides Parish, having been employed by the defendant Board continuously at the South Alexandria Elementary School for Negroes from 1925 until the school...

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