Case Name: The State of Ohio, ex rel. the German Protestant Orphan Asylum of Cincinnati, v. The Directors of School District No. 14, Millcreek Township, Hamilton County
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1859-12
Citations: 10 Ohio St. 448
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State of Ohio, ex rel. the German Protestant Orphan Asylum of Cincinnati, v. The Directors of School District No. 14, Millcreek Township, Hamilton County.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 10
Pages: 362–362

Head Matter:
The State of Ohio, ex rel. the German Protestant Orphan Asylum of Cincinnati, v. The Directors of School District No. 14, Millcreek Township, Hamilton County.
Mandamus. Reserved in the district court of Hamilton county..
Stallo & McCook, for the relator.
King & Thompson, for defendants.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Held, that the children, inmates of the German-Protestant Orphan Asylum of Cincinnati, are not " children, wards, or apprentices of actual residents" in the school district within which said asylum is located, and therefore,- under the 10th section of the act of February 21, 1849, "for the better regulation of the-public schools in cities, towns," etc. (Swan Rev. Stat. 860), not entitled to gratuitous admission to the privileges of the public schools-of said district.
Motion for peremptory mandamus overruled.