State ex rel. Donavan v. Palmer

This is au application for a mandamus to compel the defendants to permit the children of the relator to attend the public school in district No. 7 of Colfax county, of which the defendants are officers. The relator served notice on the defendants, as required by the rules, and the defendants appeared by attorney and contested the right of the relator to the relief sought.

The relator alleges in his petition that he “ is the head -of a family, and is now, and was at the times hereinafter mentioned, the father of seven children of school age, to-wit: John W., eighteen years old; Clarabel,…