State v. Board of School Com'rs of Mobile County

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a petition for mandamus by the State of Alabama, on the relation of Alice Everett, as the mother of Mary Katherine Everett, Ola Jeanette Everett, William Lavelle Everett, and Charles Ray Everett, minors, instituted in the circuit court of Mobile County to require the board of school commissioners of Mobile County to admit relator’s children of school age to the Satsuma public school for white children. They had been denied admittance on the ground that they were “colored children.”

The only question presented on this appeal is the action of the trial court in dismissing…