Foltz

Action for a mandate to compel the defendants, who are the Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, to admit the plaintiff as a student of the College. It is averred in the petition, and not denied in the answer, that the plaintiff is a citizen and resident of this State ; that she is over the age of twenty-one years ; that she is of good moral character; • that she is entitled to practice as an attorney and counsellor-at-law, and is now a regular practicing attorney of the Court in good standing; and that she duly made application for admission as a student in the College, and tendered the requisite fee, but that the Directors rejected her application, and refused to permit her to enter as a student of the College.

*31 The answer avers that the College was founded by S. C. Hastings, under and by virtue of the act entitled “ An Act to create Hastings College of the Law, in the University of the State of California,” approved March 26th, 1878, (Stat. 1877-8, p. 533); that said Hastings paid into the State Treasury the sum of $100,000 mentioned in the' act, and thereupon founded and established the “ Hastings College of the Law,” and that the same has since been managed by the…