Field v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 335, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., March T., 1900, No. 1423, refusing peremptory mandamus, in case of Charles J. Field v. Martha L. Robinson, Principal of Keystone Public Schools.
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Appeal, No. 335, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., March T., 1900, No. 1423, refusing peremptory mandamus, in case of Charles J. Field v. Martha L. Robinson, Principal of Keystone Public Schools. Petition for mandamus against Martha L. Robinson, principal of the Keystone Public School in the city of Philadelphia, to compel her to admit into the school a child of plaintiff, a girl eight years of age, without being first vaccinated as required by the act of June 18,1895. The court refused the mandamus. jError assigned was in refusing the mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
We think the court below did not err in the ruling referred to in the assignments. In Duffield v. Williamsport School District, 162 Pa. 476, we held that school directors, in the exercise of a sound discretion, may exclude from the public schools pupils who have not been vaccinated. “ Whether a resolution excluding from the school pupils who have not been vaccinated, is a reasonable one, is to be judged of in the first *639instance by the school directors. In the present state of medical knowledge and of convincing opinion of those having charge of the public health, the courts will…
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