People ex rel. Ring v. Board of Education of District 24
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Scott county; the Hon. R. B. Shirley, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
The relators filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the defendant in error to cause to be discontinued as exercises in the public schools the reading of the Bible, the singing of hymns and the repeating of the Lord’s Prayer. This writ of error is brought to reverse a judgment dismissing the petition upon sustaining a demurrer thereto.
The petition avers that the relators áre residents of, and two of them tax-payers in, school district No. 24, township No. 14, range 12, Scott county, Illinois; that certain free public schools are maintained in said school district in accordance with…
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