Board of Education v. Morgan

The board of education of school district No. 41 of DuPage county filed a petition in the circuit court for a writ of mandamus commanding the county superintendent of schools to prepare and certify to the Superintendent of Public Instruction the county budget in connection with the distribution of the State school fund, as required by law. The county superintendent demurred to the petition, and upon his demurrer being overruled elected to stand by it, whereupon the court ordered the writ issued, and the defendant appealed.

Before 1923 the amount of the State common school fund, which was…