Trustees of Schools v. People ex rel. Van Allen

This was a proceeding by mandamus to compel the trustee of schools of the town of Lake View to admit the relator’s : Frank Van Allen, as a pupil in the high school of that town.

The respondents demurred to the petition, but the court overruled the demurrer, and the respondents electing to stand by their demurrer, judgment was given awarding a peremptory mandamus to the respondents to admit Frank Van Allen to the high school.

The technical objection urged against the petition on the ground of multifariousness, in view of the present liberality in pleadings in relation to matters not…