Leonard v. School Committee of Attleboro

This is a bill in equity to restrain the members of the school committee of the city of Attleboro, the superintendent of the city’s schools, and the principal of the Attleboro High School from preventing the minor plaintiff attending the high school. All the defendants joined in a demurrer. From an interlocutory decree sustaining the demurrer and from a final decree dismissing the bill, the plaintiffs appealed.

The case made by the bill is as follows. George Leonard, Jr. (plaintiff), is a seventeen year old resident of Attle-boro. On September 9, 1964, he attended the opening day of classes at…