People Ex Rel. Vollmar v. Stanley

THE action was mandamus. Some of the court think there are certain technical objections to granting that writ in such a case as this, but since the parties have not urged them, we do not notice these objections except to say that this case is not to be regarded as an authority against them.

Mandamus was prayed, on the relation of Vollmar, to compel the respondents to "revoke their said rule requiring the reading of the Bible as a portion of the morning exercises in the schools in which petitioners' children are in attendance and prohibit such religious exercises in the public schools of said…