Penner v. Whitesell

TITUS, Judge.

Plaintiffs say they have a son-student in the R-2 School District High School at El *773Dorado Springs and that defendants (members of the board of education, principal of the high school and superintendent of the school district) require each student to make a refundable book deposit before textbooks are issued. Claiming the book-deposit requirement violated the Free Textbook Law (§ 170.051, V.A.M.S.) and certain provisions of the Missouri Constitution, plaintiffs first sought a writ of mandamus to make defendants furnish their son with necessary textbooks “free of charge and…