Kessler v. State ex rel. Clark

This action was brought by the relators for a writ of mandate, to require the appellant school trustee to employ a teacher for and to take charge of and maintain a school in schoolhouse No. 1, located in the village of Conroe, in said township.

A demurrer to the complaint and to the alternative writ issued thereon having been overruled, the appellant filed his return to the wrrit in five paragraphs, the first being a general denial and the remaining paragraphs special pleas, setting out a history of the trustee’s action in relation to the school in question. The court sustained, demurrers to…