State Ex Rel. Brown v. Board of Education of St. Louis

The relators filed a petition in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, praying a writ of certiorari commanding the Board of Education of said city and the Superintendent of Instruction to certify to said court the record of a certain rule of the Board of • Education, and that said rule be quashed. The writ was issued, and on motion of the defendants it was quashed. The relators took a voluntary nonsuit with leave. The case is here on appeal.

The petition avers, in substance, that the ten rela-tors are citizens and householders of the city of St. Louis; that the defendant John J. Maddox…