Maddox v. Neal

The appellants petitioned the circuit court for a writ of mandamus to compel the directors of a common school district to provide a school for the education of their children. Theré are nine of the petitioners and they sue on behalf of all others in the district in like situation. They represented to the court that they were negroes, residents of the district and the parents of about forty children of scholastic age; that two school houses had been provided for the district in accordance with the requirement of the statute, one for the white and one for the black children; that a school had…