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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DRAKE vs. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY,
    4 M., 98.
   To compel the board to appoint a professor of homeopathy in the department of medicine.

Denied 1856.

Held, that as a general rule it is not competent for a private citizen, when not directly injured, to invoke the aid of the writ to compel a public board to the perf ormance of an omitted duty.

Again, that the interests of the university are committed to the judgment and discretion of the regents, and it is a sufficient answer to say, that they had commenced and were making the investigation necessary to the appointment.