Barker v. Bryn Mawr College

Citations

• 278 Pa. 121
• 122 A. 220
• 1923 Pa. LEXIS 482

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — College — Expulsion of student — Mandamus— Jurisdiction of common pleas.</p> <p>1. A college chartered as a corporation of the first class, which is privately conducted, and receives no state aid, and which by its regulations reserves the rights to exclude students whose conduct it regards as undesirable, cannot be compelled by mandamus to reinstate a student which it has expelled; the court of common pleas has no jurisdiction to issue such writ.</p> <p>2. Such an institution is not required to prefer charges and hold a trial thereof, before dismissing a student regarded by it as undesirable.</p>