MacKENZIE v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF IPSWICH


342 Mass. 612 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 657

CECELIA Z. MacKENZIE vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF IPSWICH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

May 9, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold M. Willcox, Town Counsel, for the defendant.

A. Kenneth Carey, (Donald E. Carey with him,) for the plaintiff.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

This is the appeal of the Ipswich School Committee from a final decree in the Superior Court, entered May 13, 1960, which reversed the vote of the committee of June 4, 1959, to dismiss the petitioner, Cecelia Z. MacKenzie, from her position as a teacher.

General Laws c. 71, § 42, provides that a "teacher ... employed at discretion ... shall not be dismissed, except for inefficiency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming a teacher ..., insubordination...

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