DURANGO SCHOOL DIST. NO. 9-R v. THORPE

No. 79SC9.

614 P.2d 880 (1980)

DURANGO SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9-R, The Board of Education of Durango School District No. 9-R, and Donald Bushnell, Marvin Giersch, Sam Callaway, Larry Bruton, Gino Picolli, Robert Ashburn and J. C. Brasher, individually and as Directors of said District, Petitioners, v. John THORPE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

July 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamilton, Hamilton, Shand & McLachlan, P.C., E. B. Hamilton, Durango, for petitioners.

Hobbs & Waldbaum, P.C., Larry F. Hobbs, Douglas B. Koff, Denver, for respondent.

Miller & Swearingen, Reese Miller, Richard B. Wagner, Denver, for amicus curiae: Colo. Ass'n of School Boards.


ROVIRA, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals in Thorpe v. Durango School District No. 9-R et al., 41 Colo.App. 473, 591 P.2d 1329 (1978). We now affirm the judgment of the appellate court.

I.

The respondent, John Thorpe, was a nontenured teacher employed by the petitioner Durango School District No. 9-R during the 1974-1975 and 1975-1976 school years. In April...

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