Lewis v. Holden

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the action of the commissioner of education, determining the residence for school purposes of the petitioner’s nephew, Newell R. Lewis, a minor.

The petition alleges that the minor, now sixteen years of age, heretofore residing with his father in Montpelier, went to reside with and at the home of his uncle, the petitioner, at Northfield, in June of 1952, and entered Northfield High School at the beginning of the fall term. Whereupon the petitioner was informed by the defendant school board and Gallagher, the school superintendent, that,…