State ex rel. Seidl v. Jefferson County Board of Education

McMILLIAN, Presiding Judge.

Appellants, Jefferson County Board of Education (Board), appeals from an order issued by the circuit court of Jefferson County, Missouri, issuing a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding it to reassign respondents’ children to the Festus School District.

The Board contends that the court erred because respondents neither pleaded nor proved an abuse of discretion, nor sufficiently specified the relief sought. It further argues that respondents have only a doubtful right to the remedy sought; consequently, the writ should not issue.

Respondents contend that it was…