Adams v. Board of Education

286 A.D. 868, 142 N.Y.S.2d 186, 1955 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4390

Opinion

Appeal from an order denying appellant’s application to direct respondent to restore him to service as a teacher in the public schools, and dismissing the petition and proceeding. Order unanimously affirmed, without costs. This record discloses merely á conflict of opinion as to the degree and extent of appellant’s disability and the effect thereof on his fitness to be restored to service as a teacher. The mere existence of differences of opinion as to appellant’s fitness to be restored to service does not entitle him to a hearing, nor would the court be warranted in finding that a determination made by the board to act on the advice of its own officials was arbitrary or capricious. (Matter of Gollery v. Teachers’ Retirement Bd., 267 App. Div. 835, affd. 294 N. Y. 705; Matter of Strauss v. Hannig, 256 App. Div. 662, affd. 281 N. Y. 612.) Present — Nolan, P. J., Wenzel, Schmidt, Beldoek and Ughetta, JJ. [See post, p. 968.]