Holder v. Jelks

A petition for mandamus and injunction by Jelks and others against Holder and others, composing the board of education of Pulaski county, and Sanders, county school commissioner, was presented to his honor D. M. Roberts. He granted an order requiring the defendants to show cause, on the 3d day of February, 1902, why the writ of mandamus should not issue. There was a postponement of the hearing until February 5. On that day “the said case came up for a hearing, and was heard and. tried” upon the petition, a demurrer and answer thereto which had been filed by the defendants, and upon evidence…