Bradford v. Board of Education

This is an appeal from an order and judgment, denying the petitioner a writ of mandate to compel the respondents, the board of education of the city and county of San Francisco and the members thereof, to admit petitioner as a pupil to the Girls’ High School of San Francisco, said board having theretofore suspended her for the reason that, while enrolled as a pupil in said school, she joined and became a member of a secret, oath-bound Greek letter sorority existing in said school in violation of a recent act of the legislature.

In the year 1909 there was enacted in this state the following statute:

Following the enactment of this statute the board of education of the city and county of San Francisco promulgated certain rules and regulations and passed resolutions having for their object the enforcement of this act.

It appears from the respondents’ answer (the allegations of which are admitted to be true by petitioner’s demurrer thereto and by a subsequent stipulation of the parties), “That sub-, sequent to the adoption of the aforesaid act of the legislature Doris Bradford, petitioner herein, was a pupil enrolled as such in the Girls’ High School, a secondary school in the…