Bramlett v. Callaway

Duckworth, Justice.

All references to the consolidation of school districts pursuant to the Code, § 32-917, are at the outset put aside as having no relevancy whatever to the issues in the present ease. The word “schools” as used in that section must be construed to mean “school districts,” since it provides for consolidation of districts, and not of schools. The present case involves the right of the county board of education to unite two or more schools in the same or different districts. This authority is conferred upon the board by the Code, § 32-915, which in part declares: “The board of…