In Re Smiling

This appeal involves the right of the petitioners to attend the Indian Public Schools of Robeson County. The matter reached the Superior Court by appeal from a decision of the Legislative Committee for the Indian race in said county.

The facts are succinctly set out in the judgment of the Superior Court and are as follows:

"Upon the hearing, the petitioners having announced that all questions involved in this appeal from the Legislative Committee to the Superior Court are abandoned, except the plea of estoppel raised by the petitioners upon the record and evidence offered before the court upon…