Harris v. Board of Public Education of the School District

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

The board of inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prison requested the Philadelphia Board of Public Education to establish a school in the county prison at Holmesburg, Philadelphia, for the instruction of prisoners between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years.

The board of education, after due consideration, adopted a resolution directing the superintendent of its schools to install an educational department in the institution named. Plaintiff filed a taxpayers’ bill to restrain the establishing of educational facilities at the place indicated, on the…