Wheeler

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court of the county of Alameda, denying the application of the appellants for' a writ of mandate.

The facts are briefly as follows: The plaintiff, Alan Frank Williams, a young man of the age of eighteen years, applied to be enrolled as a student at the University of California. The rules of the board of regents of the university require that every person in attendance as a student, or applying for enrollment as such, in the university, shall produce evidence satisfactory to the authorities thereof that he has been successfully vaccinated within seven years prior to such attendance or application; or else be vaccinated. The plaintiff had not been successfully vaccinated within such period, and refused to be vaccinated, but presented to the authorities in charge of the university a statement in writing signed by his parents, stating that such parents were conscientiously opposed to the practice of vaccination and would not consent to the vaccination of said plaintiff. The authorities of the university still refusing him admission as a student therein, the plaintiff, by his guardian ad litem, applied to the superior court for a writ…