Board of Education v. Dick

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J. :

The plaintiffs, for themselves and 400 others similarly situated, brought this suit to restrain the board of education of the city of Lawrence, a city of the second class, from enforcing one of its resolutions previously adopted, authorizing the superintendent of its city schools to expel from the high school all resident pupils who should refuse to pay a tuition fee of $2.50 per term. The petition alleged that the plaintiffs are residents and taxpayers of the city of Lawrence, and the parents of children between the ages of six and twenty…