Ashley v. Board of Education

The appellants are seventy-nine children between the ages of six and fifteen years, inmates of the Illinois Masonic Orphans’ Home situated in LaGrange, Illinois, and within school district No. 102, in the county of Cook, who filed a bill in the circuit court of Cook county against the board of education of the school district, its president and members and the principal of the schools, to enjoin them from excluding the appellants from the schools of the district unless the Illinois Masonic Orphans’ Home would pay tuition for them, in accordance with a resolution adopted by the board of…