Creyhon v. Board of Education

*825The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The parents of several children who had successfully completed the work in the eighth grade of a parochial school in Parsons applied for their admission to the city high school. The board of education refused to admit them without their taking an examination in accordance with its rules. The parents obtained from this court an alterative writ of mandamus requiring such action, unless reason to the contrary should be shown. The board filed an answer in which a part of the allegations of the writ are admitted. The plaintiffs ask for a judgment…