Payroll Guarantee Ass'n v. Board of Education

By this proceeding in mandamus petitioners seek to compel respondents to grant their application for the use of the auditorium of the Evening High School of Commerce at San Francisco on Friday evening, November 9, 1945.

Sections 19431-19433 of the Education Code (as partly amended in 1945) provide as follows:

“19431. There is a civic center at each and every public school building and grounds within the State where the citizens, parent-teachers’ association, Campfire Girls, Boy Scout troops, farmers’ organizations, clubs, and associations formed for recreational, educational, political,…