People Ex Rel. Tinkoff v. Northwestern University

Plaintiffs-appellants, Paysoff Tinkoff, Sr., and his son Paysoff Tinkoff, Jr., filed pro sese in the circuit court of Cook county a complaint seeking a writ of mandamus to compel Northwestern University and its president, Franklin Bliss Snyder, to admit Tinkoff, Jr., to be enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts of Northwestern University as a freshman at the semester commencing in September, 1945. On September 25, 1945, the trial court sustained a motion by defendants to strike the complaint and entered an order dismissing the cause. A motion to vacate this order was denied. Thereafter, but…