People ex rel. Jenkins v. Board of Education

Louise Jenkins, by her next friend, filed her petition in “the name of the People, in the circuit court of Cook county, against the board of education of the city of Chicago, and therein alleged that she was a resident of the city, six years of age, a daughter of D. F. D. Jenkins, a resident and taxpayer of said city, and that on October 29, 1907, she applied for admission as a pupil to the John Fislce school, which she was entitled to attend, and was denied admission to the said school by the board of education because she refused to be vaccinated, and she prayed for a writ of mandamus…