Dean v. Board of Education of School District No. 90

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county which directed that a writ of mandamus issue commanding the members of the board of education of school district No. 89 of Cook county and its supertendent of schools to take official action to admit Josephine Dean, Marcella Dean and Charles Dean, Jr., in whose behalf the suit was prosecuted, to the Washington school in said district as regular resident pupils. It was alleged in' the petition that section 1, article VIII of the constitution, and the statutes enacted pursuant to such mandate, gave to said children a right to…