Legal Opinion

Moreau v. Grandich

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1917PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from the circuit court of Hancock county. Hon. J. H. Neville, Judge. Petition by Antonio Grandicli and wife for mandamus against Charlie Moreau and others, school trustees. Prom a judgment granting the-writ, defendants appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We will first discuss the first assignment of errors which is: “The court below erred in overruling the demurrer filed by the appellant to the petition filed against them.”

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Appeal from the circuit court of Hancock county. Hon. J. H. Neville, Judge. Petition by Antonio Grandicli and wife for mandamus against Charlie Moreau and others, school trustees. Prom a judgment granting the-writ, defendants appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We will first discuss the first assignment of errors which is: “The court below erred in overruling the demurrer filed by the appellant to the petition filed against them.” A careful reading of the petition filed herein will show that all the petition alleges is that the appellee’s children are white…

1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.

Appellees, Antonio Grandich and his wife, filed a petition for mandamus in the circuit court of Hancock county against appellants seeking to compel them to admit the children of the appellees to the white public school of Bay St. Louis in said county. The petition for mandamus alleges that Grandich and wife were citizens and taxpayers of Hancock county residing in *572Bay St. Louis, within a separate school district, and. that the appellants are trustees of the said separate-school district, and that the children of the appellees,, four in number, were at school' age and were entitled!to attend…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hobbs v. GermanyMississippi Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Heirn v. BridaultMississippi Supreme Court · 1859
  3. Lee v. New Orleans Great Northern R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
  4. Mullins v. BelcherCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. United States of America Ex Rel. Robert Lee Goldsby v. William Harpole, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
  2. Board of Education v. State Educational Finance CommissionMississippi Supreme Court · 1962
  3. State Ex Rel. Plunkett v. MillerMississippi Supreme Court · 1931
  4. County Board of Education v. SmithMississippi Supreme Court · 1960
  5. Rice v. Gong LumMississippi Supreme Court · 1925

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