The court affirmed the School Board's suspension of eleven teachers due to declining enrollment, finding that post-suspension hearings satisfied due process and that the Board properly calculated seniority and the number of necessary suspensions.
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 134. This was’ an action in assumpsit brought by John A. Finney and Ada M. Finney, his wife, for use of fhe said Ada M. Finney, against A. H. Rowand, Jr., to recover the sum of $1965, with interest from August 3d 1875. A. H. Rowand, Jr., the defendant below, by warrantee deed dated August 3d 1875, conveyed to Ada M. Finney certain property in the borough of Verona, county of Allegheny, for the consideration of $2700. He received $1200 cash and a purchase-money mortgage with bond and notes of John A. and Ada M. Finney for $1500, payable in two instalments of $750 each, in four and six months respectively. The four months’ note he endorsed to the Franklin Savings Bank, of Allegheny. The six months’ note was endorsed to the Diamond National Bank, of Pittsburgh. When the first note matured, it was protested for non-payment, and a few days thereafter Finney paid one-half of the amount, and a new note for the other one-half, with interest added, was made by Finney and wife to Rowand’s order, and by him was endorsed to the Franklin Savings bank as before. This second note was also protested for non-payment at maturity. The six months’ note held by the Diamond National Bank was not paid and was protested at maturity. No further payments were made on these notes, and a scire facias was issued on the mortgage to No. 488, April Term 1876, marked A. H. Rowand, for use of the Diamond National Bank and George R. Riddle, trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, v. Ada M. Finney and John A. Finney, her husband. Finney and wife appeared and made defence to this action, and on the trial there was a verdict against them for $848.92. Judgment was entered on the verdict and the property was sold on a levari facias, following the judgment, to the Diamond National Bank. After these ‘proceedings and sale, the present action was brought, wherein Finney and Avife claimed that
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