State Ex Rel. Wilson v. Musburger

This is an appeal from an order of the district court for Madison county granting a peremptory writ of prohibition in favor of the respondent herein. The matter arose out of an attempted consolidation of several school districts in Madison county under section 1034, Revised Codes. The chief question in the case concerns the sufficiency of the petition in District 48 requesting consolidation upon which the election was based. The petition bore the signatures of seven resident freeholders. It was stipulated by counsel for the respective parties that there were at least thirteen resident…