Trager v. State ex rel. Goudie

Joseph Goudie, for himself and others, instituted a proceeding, by mandate, against Jacob Trager, as trus*318tee of Brookville township. The affidavit, which is the complaint, upon which the proceeding is founded, alleges substantially these facts :

Goudie, and others, to the number of thirteen, citizens of sections numbered 36, 25 and 34, in Brookville township, Franklin county, having children entitled to the privilege of attending common school, by petition, represented to the trustee of said township, that they had been, for some time past, deprived of the benefit of such school, on account of…