Richardson v. Board of Education
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original proceeding in mandamus. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, Mamie Richardson, presents her petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the board of education of Kansas City, Kan., and M. E. Pearson, superintendent of the high school, to permit her to attend the forenoon sessions of the high school.
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Original proceeding in mandamus. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, Mamie Richardson, presents her petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the board of education of Kansas City, Kan., and M. E. Pearson, superintendent of the high school, to permit her to attend the forenoon sessions of the high school. She alleges that the board of education of Kansas City passed a resolution separating the white and colored pupils in the high school, and providing that the forenoon sessions shall be attended by white pupils and that the colored pupils shall attend the afternoon sessions ; that she is a colored…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Greene, J.:
The question decisive of this controversy is the constitutionality of chapter 414 of the Laws of 1905, as amendatory of section 6290 of the General Statutes of 1901. The plaintiff’s contentions are: That the amended act is a general law providing for the organization, maintenance, government and control of high schools in all cities of the first class, and therefore cannot be amended or repealed by a special act; that chapter 414 of the Laws of 1905 is a special act, and is therefore inoperative as a repeal of *632the general law. In order to…
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