Reynolds v. Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Board of Education of the Union Free School District of the City of Little Falls, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Herkimer on the' 23d day of February, 1898, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Oneida Special Term, overruling a demurrer to the complaint, based upon the- ground that the complaint did not state facts…
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Appeal by the defendant, The Board of Education of the Union Free School District of the City of Little Falls, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Herkimer on the' 23d day of February, 1898, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Oneida Special Term, overruling a demurrer to the complaint, based upon the- ground that the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an order, made…
1Opinion of the Court
Ward, J.:
The defendant is a body corporate created under the Consolidated School Law of this State. Sections 3 and 4 of title 16 (The Compulsory Education Law is title 16 of the Consolidated School Law) of that law require, in substance, that every child between the ages of , eight and sixteen years, in proper physical and mental condition to attend school, shall regularly attend upon instruction at the school in which at least the common branches of an English education are " taught, or upon equivalent instruction by a competent teacher for a certain period specified in the law ;■ that the…
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