Gardner v. State ex rel. Burch

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

In the year 1901 the legislature enacted a law providing for the voluntary disorganization and consolidation of adjacent school districts. A portion of the first section reads as follows:

“Whenever the inhabitants of two or more adjacent school districts of the state of Kansas desire to unite for the purpose of forming a single or union school district and conducting therein a graded school, the clerks of the several districts shall, upon a written application of five voters of their respective districts, or by order of the several…