State Ex Rel. Darby v. Hadaway

The sole question of law presented is whether it is mandatory upon a county board of education to transfer territory from a centralized school district, if petitioned for by 75 per cent, of the qualified electors residing within the territory which it is sought to have transferred. The plain and pertinent provisions of existing statutes answer the question in the negative.

Although in different chapters of the Code, Sections 4696 and 4727 are in pari materia, and therefore must be construed together. The power to make transfers of territory from one school district to another is conferred by…