Bernhardt v. Long

These five cases are election contests of school directors in Consolidated School District No. 5 of Jefferson County. The cases were filed separately below and separately appealed, but were consolidated [114] below and here. The contestees (respondents) in each case filed motion to dismiss. The five contests were based on same alleged facts, except names of parties, and there was a stipulation that the judgment in what is case No. 40,533 here would be the judgment in the other four cases. The trial court sustained the motion to dismiss in No. 40,533, and that case and the four others were…