Special School District No. 50 v. Deason

Based upon a petition signed by a majority of the electors in the territory affected, the county board of education of Benton County made an order changing the boundary lines of Gentry Special School District so as to absorb or consolidate all the territory in appellant district with the Gentry district, and transferring the control, property, and funds of appellant to the Gentry district. From this order an appeal was taken to the circuit court and appeal bond given.

Thereafter, while this appeal was pending in the circuit court, appellants brought this suit in the chancery court to have the…