Stephens v. Humphrey
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Sevier Circuit Court; James 8. Steel, Judge; The mandamus should have been granted. The directors had no right to refuse admission to the public school, to pupils properly transferred, for an infraction of the rules of th§ district from which they were transferred. Kirby’s Digest, 7637 etc.; 35 Cyc. 1141-2; 31 Neb. 552; 63 Wis. 234; 24 Mo. App. .309'; 116 Ind. 11; 9 Am.
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Appeal from Sevier Circuit Court; James 8. Steel, Judge; The mandamus should have been granted. The directors had no right to refuse admission to the public school, to pupils properly transferred, for an infraction of the rules of th§ district from which they were transferred. Kirby’s Digest, 7637 etc.; 35 Cyc. 1141-2; 31 Neb. 552; 63 Wis. 234; 24 Mo. App. .309'; 116 Ind. 11; 9 Am. St. 820; 69 Ark. 202; 89 Id. 254. 1. It was within the sound discretion of the court to grant or withhold the writ. No abuse of discretion is shown. High, Ext. Rem., § 9; 13 Peters 404; 1 Ark. 11; 95 Icl. 118; 6…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
W. E. Stephens, a citizen and taxpayer of Sevier County, Arkansas, had two sons, Wiley and Louis. Wiley was fourteen years old and Louis eleven. The boys were attending school in Common School District No. 10. Their teacher was Miss Florence House. Wiley had a fight with another boy in the school. The teacher punished the other boy and undertook to administer the same punishment to Wiley Stephens for his part in the fight. Wiley said, “I can’t take any punishment.” The teacher asked him why, and he replied, “I just can’t take it because papa told me not to,” and he said further, “I won’t take…
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- Norton v. Lakeside Special School DistrictSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
- Special School District No. 33 v. EubanksSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
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