Case ID: miss_113/html/0238-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Sykes, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lockard, County Superintendent of Education v. Hoy.
    [74 South. 137,
    Division A.]
    Appeal and Error. Dismissal. Want of controversy. Mandamus.
    
    Where a teacher selected by the trustees of a public school for a scholastic year petitioned for a writ of mandamus to compel the superintendent of education of the county to contract with her, but the scholastic year for which she was elected, expired before the case should be heard in the supreme court on the appeal of the superintendent, the supreme court will dismiss such appeal, s.ince rights already lost and wrongs already perpetrated cannot be'corrected by mandamus.
    Appeal from the circuit court of Yazoo county.
    Hon. W. H. Potter, Judge.
    Petition for writ of mandamus by Mattie L. Hoy against "W. W. Lockard, superintendent of education of Yazoo County. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
    
      Earl N. Floyd, Assistant Attorney-General, for appellant.
    
      Henry & Broiun and E. L. Broion, for appellee.
   Sykes, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee, who was plaintiff in the lower court, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus against W. W. Lockard, superintendent of education of Yazoo county, in which petition she alleged that she had been duly and lawfully selected by the trustees of Antioch Public School as teacher of same for the scholastic year beginning the 18th of October, 1915; that she held a first-grade license, and that it was the duty of the superintendent to contract with her as said teacher, at a salary of not less than twenty-five dollars a month, under section 4522, Code 1906; that said superintendent refused to contract with her, as provided in said section, hut only offered her the sum of twenty dollars per month. The prayer of said petition is that a writ of mandamus issue, directing the said county superintendent to contract with petitioner.

A demurrer was interposed to this petition and overruled by the court. Defendant below declined to plead further and judgment was entered against him, from which this appeal is prosecuted without bond.

The scholastic term to which the appellee was elected to teach has long since expired. Therefore there is no practical question before this court for decision. Rights already lost, and wrongs already perpetrated, cannot be corrected by mandamus. McDaniel v. Hurt et al., 92 Miss. 197, 41 So. 381; Pafhausen v. State ex rel. Loposer, 94 Miss. 103, 47 So. 897.

The appellant is therefore dismissed.

Dismissed.