State Ex Rel. Stephens v. Keaster

This proceeding is an application for an alternative writ of mandate.

School District No. 2, of Chouteau County, is a school district and body corporate, in which is located a sehoolhouse and therein is conducted, in school season, a public school. The respondents are the trustees of the district. The relator is a resident and taxpayer thereof. He is the father of three children of school age. His home is some miles from the sehoolhouse.

Eelator claims that no transportation for his children has ever been provided by respondents, to enable the children to attend the district school, and that,…