Morse v. Ashley

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus * to compel the respondents as they are the school committee of the town of Acushnet, to reopen the Bisbee School in that town. On October 7, 1905, the town voted to reopen the school, but the respondents refuse to comply with the vote. The question is whether the vote is binding upon the respondents.

It appears that at some time previous to the vote there had been maintained in the town an ungraded school called the Bisbee School, which two children of the petitioner, each under ten years of age, attended; that the committee had caused the school to…