People ex rel. Todd v. Board of Education

Mr. Presiding Justice Matchett

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is by defendants from a judgment entered in an action of mandamus. The action was brought against the board of education and its secretary upon the relation of James Todd, the attorney for said board.

The petition prays that the board may be required to expunge from its record an order adopted November 13, 1929, by which the board directed that Frank S. Righeimer should be placed in full charge of condemnation matters in its law department, including the trial of condemnation cases, and that Thomas Y. Sullivan should…