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Document B: "Judgement"
Adolpho Romo v. William E. Laird, et al.
No. 21617, Maricopa County Superior Court (1925)

Reprinted from the OAH Magazine of History
15 (Winter 2001). ISSN 0882-228X
Copyright (c) 2001, Organization of American Historians
This action having come on for trial upon the complaint of the plaintiff herein, the return and answer of the defendant thereto, and having been tried by the court sitting without a jury, and the court having filed its finds of fact herein, and the court having determined conclusions of law, that the relator is entitled to a permanent peremptory writ of mandamus, as prayed for in the complaint.

NOW, upon motion of Edward B. Goodwin and Harold J. Janson, attorneys for said plaintiff,

IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that...the Board of Trustees of Tempe School District No. 3, and...Superintendent of Tempe School District No. 3,...shall admit the children of Adolpho Romo, namely, Antonio Romo, age fifteen; Henry Romo, age fourteen; Alice Romo, age eleven; and Charles Romo, age seven on the same terms and conditions to the public schools of said Tempe School District No. 3, Maricopa County, Arizona, as children of other nationalities are now admitted.

Done in open court this 5th day of October, A. D. 1925.

Joseph S. Jenckes, Judge.