Commonwealth ex rel. Parris v. Directors of Brookville Borough School District
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1894, by defendants, from order of C. P. Jefferson Co., Dec. T., 1893, No. 187, granting a peremptory mandamus. Petition for mandamus.
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Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1894, by defendants, from order of C. P. Jefferson Co., Dec. T., 1893, No. 187, granting a peremptory mandamus. Petition for mandamus. The petition averred: that the relator was the child of a soldier of the late war, said child now being resident in defendant school district, dwelling in the Pennsylvania Memorial Home, a charitable corporation chartered under the act of April 29, 1874; that the relator had demanded admission into the public schools of the district but was denied such admission, although entitled thereto under the act of April 18, 1893, P. L. 23.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice McCollum,
In Commonwealth ex rel. John Fry v. The Board of Directors of the School District of Upper Swatara Township, decided at this term [the preceding case], we held that the inmates of an institution chartered for the care, support and education of poor and needy children, and maintained by state appropriations, voluntary contributions etc., did not, by their presence in it for the purpose of education and maintenance, become entitled to free admission to the schools of the district in which it was located. In other words, we held that the non-residents of the…
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