People Ex Rel. Latimer v. Board of Education of Chicago

Mr. Presiding Justice Niemeter

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendants appeal from an order striking their amended answer and awarding a peremptory writ of mandamus directing defendants to forthwith place the name of relator (hereafter called plaintiff) upon the eligible list of persons entitled to receive a certificate of teacher to teach in the intermediate and upper grades of the elementary schools of Chicago, and commanding the Board of Education to issue forthwith to plaintiff a certificate of teacher in said grades.

The complaint alleges that the statute provides that the Board of…