State ex rel. Joyce v. Deneen

The proceeding to detach the territory is pursuant to the provisions of sec. 40.85, Stats. The section is long and complicated and we shall not set it out in full. Sub. (1) provides that property may be detached from a school district maintaining a high school, other than a union free high school district, according to conditions therein specified, by filing with the clerk of the school board an application signed by three fourths of the electors and by the owners of more than one half of the taxable property by assessed value of the territory which is petitioned to be detached.

Sub. (4)…