Turner v. Board of Education

The circuit court of Lake County denied a petition for a writ of mandamus to order the defendant, the Board of Education of North Chicago Community High School District 123, to permit Johnnie Mae Turner to attend North Chicago High School on a tuition-free basis. The petition in behalf of the plaintiff was filed by her brother, Percy Turner, who lives with his wife and two infant children in North Chicago, which is in the defendant school district. Four days before Turner filed the petition for mandamus he had been appointed the guardian of the plaintiff by the circuit court of Lake County.

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