PEOPLE EX REL. ALTMAN v. BOARD ED. OF CHICAGO

Gen. No. 51,864.

90 Ill. App.2d 21 (1967)

234 N.E.2d 362

People of the State of Illinois on the Relation of Irene J. Altman, and Irene J. Altman, Mother and Next Friend of Faye Diament, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, a Body Politic and Corporate, Benjamin C. Willis, General Superintendent of Schools, Thaddeus J. Lubera, Interim Superintendent, Curtis C. Melnick and Margaret Clyne, District Superintendents, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

November 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney S. Altman, of Chicago, for appellants.

James W. Coffey, of Chicago (John T. Mehigan, Richard E. Girard, and Michael J. Murray, of counsel), for appellees.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a mandamus action, in which the relator seeks to compel the transfer of her daughter, Faye Diament, from the Hyde Park High School to the South Shore High School, because of emotional and psychological difficulties resulting from her attendance at Hyde Park. After a trial on the merits, the trial court denied the petition and the relator appeals.

The relator, Irene J. Altman, and her...

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