Harman v. Ide

The matters involved on this appeal require a construction of those features of the school law relating to the right of appeal to the state superintendent of education. The state superintendent has construed the law to give him a discretion as to whether he would review, and in the exercise of that discretion he determined not to review., the matter. This is a mandamus sought from the courts requiring him to entertain the appeal, and determine the question submitted.

The Act of the Legislature of Alabama, approved August 25, 1927 (Acts 1927, p. 442), appropriated $900,000 annually as an…