Case ID: mich_118/html/0199-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ECKHARDT v. DARBY.
    Schools — Use oe School-House — Religious Meetings.
    The voters of a school district, at a meeting properly called and held, are authorized to prohibit the use of the school-house for the purpose of holding religious meetings.
    
      Mandamus by George Eckhardt and others to compel James A. Darby and others, comprising the school board of District No. 5 in Kalkaska township, to allow relators the nse of the school-house for religious meetings. The circuit judge, Ered H. Aldrich, denied the writ, and the relators sought to review his action on certiorari.
    
    Writ of certiorari denied September 20, 1898.
    
      Totten & Phelps, for relators.
   Per Curiam,

The writ of certiorari is denied. The voters of the district, at a meeting properly called and held, voted not to permit relators the use of the schoolhouse for the purpose of holding meetings. Their action was regular, and authorized by the law.