Commonwealth ex rel. Fry v. Directors of Upper Swatara Township School District
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 13 and 14, May T., 1894, by defendants, from judgments of C. P. Dauphin Co., March T., 1894, Nos. 171 and 172, directing a peremptory mandamus. Mandamus to compel admission to public school.
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Appeals, Nos. 13 and 14, May T., 1894, by defendants, from judgments of C. P. Dauphin Co., March T., 1894, Nos. 171 and 172, directing a peremptory mandamus. Mandamus to compel admission to public school. Respondents filed an answer denying that the petitioners were residents of Upper Swatara School District and averring that petitioner, Ammon Frome, was a resident of Steelton, Pa., and that petitioner, John Fry, was a resident of Harrisburg, their parents, being residents of those places. Other facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court below awarded a peremptory mandamus,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice McCollum,
The controlling question in this case is whether the relator has a residence in Upper Swatara township which entitles him to admission to the common schools therein. He is a child, seven years old, and an inmate of the “ Children’s Industrial Association of Harrisburg, Pa.,” a corporation created on the 22d of March, 1877, under the act of April 29, 1874, P. L. 73, Purd. Digest, 12th ed., 405. It is a charitable institution sustained by state appropriations, membership dues, voluntary contributions, and a monthly payment of eight dollars by the directors of the…
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