The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-07-30
ANOTHER BIG
JUDGMENT FOR
THE CREDITORS
Decision in the School
Case Rendered.
INTERVENORS WIN THE FIGHT
COPY BOOK CASE IS NOW BE-
FORE THE COURT.
Demurrer to the Complaint Brought
to Prevent a Change Of the
Writing System Is
Overruled.
INTERvEN0RS WIN THE fight
COPY BOOK CASE IS NOW BE
FORE THE COURT.

The Mission High School funds. to-
gether with other moneys in the treas
ury, will be diverted from their channels
and turned over to the merchant credi-
tors of the School Department. This was
decided yesterday by Judge Hebbard in
the action Of Fred Mordecai against Audi
tor Wells, Treasurer Truman and the
Board of Education, in which the Union
Trust Company was assignee OF creditors
whose claims aggregated some $50, 00O
Mordecai had furnished the department
with goods to the value OF $lS2 oO. win
many others his claim was repudiated by
the board on the ground that no funds re-
manned from which 1t could be paid Suit
was brought to compel the board to audit
the claim and an injunction was asked
prohibiting the board from paying me
Various claims against the Mission High
School fund that that fund might be d.
verified and used to liquidate his demand.
In this action preferred creditors OF the
department, through instruction of At
torney Frank Powers, assigned their
claims to the Union Trust Company, and
they entered the suit as intervenors.
After hearing the evidence Judge Heb
tervenors as prayed. It is said that an
appeal will be taken, as there is some ais
satisfaction among those creditors whose
claims were not dignit1ed BY belng placed
on the preferred list.
THE decision Of Judge Hebbard Is of
greater Importance to the TEACHERS than
many or tnem suppose, SdlO - n W VI
ply, chairman of the teachers litigation
committee. The teachers in mass-meet-
ing directed the committee to relinquish
all rights TO the $4,000 then supposed to
be available for the payment Of outstand-
ing claims for the first half of the past
fiscal year. The merchants drew out all
of this money on their claims as per
agreement of teachers and merchants.
| The litigation committee declined to be
entirely governed by the agreement d.
recting the surrender of all the moneys
available for that fiscal year for the pay
ment Of outstanding claims. We drove
the merchants TO a tighter bargain by
agreeing to share any other moneys avail
able proportionally. The amount Of the
teachers unpaid salary aggregates $3.50 900
and that of the merchants $36 ,0OO Now,
under the decision of Judge Hebbard, the
litigant teachers will receive their pro-
portion of the amount turned over to the
Union Trust Company, where, had the
committee not acted upon its own judg-
ment, the merchants would have been
paid in full and the teachers would not
have received anything. Had the teach
ers agreed to the compromise advised by
their representatives and attorneys. they
would have received about $4,000 instead
of about half of that amount"
The demurrer of the Board of Education
to the complaint of ]. s. Green, who seeks
to entoin the board from changing the
system of penmanship used in the various
schools from the California vertical sys-
tenn TO the round-hand system, was fled
Issues will now be joined and the case will
go to trial on its merits.