State v. School District No. 16

Appellant, in his own behalf and as father and next friend of his three children, instituted an action for mandamus in the Montgomery Circuit Court to compel appellees, directors of School District No. 16 in said county, to permit his children to attend the school provided for white children in said district. It was alleged in the petition that the relator and his children are members of the white or Caucasian race, and that his wife, the mother of said children, is also with a trace of Cherokee Indian blood in her veins; that said board excluded the children from attendance upon the white…