Peters v. Pauma School District

WOOD (W. J.), J., pro tem.

Defendants appeal upon the judgment-roll, claiming that the findings do not support the conclusions reached by the trial court. Wesley W Peters, a minor Indian child, filed in the superior court a petition for a writ of mandamus by which he seeks to compel the defendant School District and the teacher thereof to admit him as a pupil. Among the findings of the trial court are the following:

“That Max Peters, and Wesley W. Peters, are Mission Indians, and live upon the Pauma Grant, originally a large Spanish Grant patented to the Mexican Government in 1844, to Jose…