Baltimore University v. Colton
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore City Court (Dennis, J.) The rights of the petitioner, if he has any, arise out of a contract with a private corporation, and cannot be enforced by the action of mandamus. 19 A. & E. Ency. Law, (2 ed.) 742; Clark v. Md.
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Appeal from Baltimore City Court (Dennis, J.) The rights of the petitioner, if he has any, arise out of a contract with a private corporation, and cannot be enforced by the action of mandamus. 19 A. & E. Ency. Law, (2 ed.) 742; Clark v. Md. Institute, 87 Md. 643. The petition alleges an oral contract, partially based upon certain alleged uses and customs of the school with regard to the duration of time a student could attend, and take the examinations, and also as to the time of the payment of the fees charged by the school. The prayer then asks for a writ of mandamus commanding the…
1Opinion of the CourtFowler, J.
George S. Colton was a student at the Law School of the Baltimore University. The faculty notified him at the close bf the session of 1900—1901, that they would not permit him to take the final examinations and refused to consider him as a candidate for graduation. Whereupon he filed in the Baltimore City Court a petition for mandamus against the Baltimore University.
The petition alleges that the defendant University duly organized and established the Law School, and that the rules adopted for the government and regulation of said school provided that no preliminary examination should be…
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