BOARD OF EDUC., ETC. v. JENNINGS

No. 5510.

651 P.2d 1037 (1982)

98 N.M. 602

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ALAMOGORDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT NO. 1, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lyman JENNINGS, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

September 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Overstreet & Sandenaw, P.C., Alamogordo, for Bd. of Educ. of Alamogordo Public School District No. 1.

Durrett, Jordon & Grisham, P.C., Alamogordo, for Lyman Jennings.

Jeff Bingaman, Atty. Gen., John F. Kennedy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for State of N.M.

William McEuen, Santa Fe, for New Mexico State Bd. of Educ.


OPINION

NEAL, Judge.

Lyman Jennings, an assistant principal at Alamogordo Mid-High, was fired by the Alamogordo School Board (Local Board) for carrying on an extramarital affair with a secretary in the Mid-High office. Jennings appealed to the State Board of Education, § 22-10-20, N.M.S.A. 1978, which reversed the Local Board. The Local Board appeals.

We affirm.

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