Cristman v. Peck

The relator applied for a mandamus, based on the assumed unauthorized act of the respondents as school directors in refusing to admit her children to the school until they brought a written excuse from her for their previous absence, to compel the .directors to admit them to the school without such written excuse. There is no averment, and no ground for assuming, that the refusal to admit the relator’s children to the school, for the alleged cause, was permanent, or had reference to any other than the term being taught at the time the children neglected to bring the required excuse. That term…