Court Opinion

ID: 9632428
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:14:36.079706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:15.842382
License: Public Domain

CROCKETT, Justice
(concurring).
I concur.
It is indisputable that Dr. Bateman is in fact the Superintendent of Public Instruction and is performing the duties of that office. That is so, whether by appointment of the newly created board, or continuing under his elected term.
If the new board had appointed someone else, and Dr. Bateman were now claiming the office on the ground that *188his elected term had not been terminated, we would have been confronted squarely with that problem. Under the existing facts, it seems unnecessary to determine whether his elected term was terminated.
I expressly agree with that portion of the main opinion which holds that the present Board of Education was lawfully established. Since its creation by constitutional amendment, it has been the only authority having power to fix the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, which it has done in accordance with lawfully conferred prerogatives. I, therefore, concur in the decision of the Court except that I reserve opinion concerning the termination of Dr. Bateman’s elected term.
HENRIOD, J., having disqualified himself, does not participate herein.