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PERRY v. SCHOOL DIST. NO. 81

No. 34866.

54 Wn.2d 886 (1959)

344 P.2d 1036

WILLIAM PERRY et al., Appellants, v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 81, SPOKANE COUNTY, Respondent, UPPER COLUMBIA MISSION SOCIETY OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS, INC., et al., Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

October 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Maxey, for appellants.

John J. Lally and Donald N. Olson, for respondent.

Benjamin H. Kizer, Robert D. Dellwo, Kenneth E. Gemmill, Sam L. Levinson, Melville Oseran, Howard P. Pruzan, Solie M. Ringold, Bernard Swerland, Alfred J. Schweppe, Leonard W. Schroeter, and Donald S. Voorhees, amici curiae.

HUNTER, J.

This appeal involves the constitutionality of the released-time program carried on in Spokane in school district No. 81.

The action was instituted by the plaintiffs, William Perry, Bud Cox, Kenneth Roberts and Ray Parringer. They, as taxpayers, sought to have the released-time program, being carried out in Spokane, declared unconstitutional. The Upper Columbia Mission Society of Seventh Day Adventists, Inc., and the International Religious Liberty...

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