State Ex Rel. Consolidated District No. 13 v. Smith

Original proceeding in mandamus. Relator, claiming to be a consolidated school district, seeks to compel the State Auditor to register its bonds. The auditor challenged the corporate existence of the-district as a consolidated school district and refused registration. The facts follow:

On April 2, 1929, there existed a town school district designated as “School District of Gideon.” On said day and at the annual school meeting in said district there was submitted to the voters the proposition to divide the district by detaching therefrom seventy-one sections of land. The proposition carried.

The…