People ex rel. Regents of the University v. Auditor General
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. This ivas an application, by the Board of Regents of the Michigan University, to compel the Auditor General to pay the sum of $3,000, which they had appropriated by resolution to establish a school of Homoeopathy. The petition set forth that, by the - act of the legislature — Sess. L. 1855, p. 23£— it was provided that there shall be “ at least one professor of Homoeopathy in the department of medicine” in the University.
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Mandamus. This ivas an application, by the Board of Regents of the Michigan University, to compel the Auditor General to pay the sum of $3,000, which they had appropriated by resolution to establish a school of Homoeopathy. The petition set forth that, by the - act of the legislature — Sess. L. 1855, p. 23£— it was provided that there shall be “ at least one professor of Homoeopathy in the department of medicine” in the University. That, by the act of 1867, it was further provided that the Board of Regents of said University should appoint said professor in the department of medicine, at the…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
The controversy in this case grows out of the conflict between two hostile schools or theories of medicine, both claiming the public patronage and the. aid of the public funds for their promulgation in the medical department of the University. The adherents of the allopathic theory, which is the oldest and most generally recognized, having obtained a legal recognition from the regents in the establishment of the medical department, have continued to keep the exclusive control of it to the present time. While the adherents of the opposite, or homoeopathic school, claiming equal…
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