In Re Assignment of the School Children in the Stella Community

When this controversy was before the State Board of Education, it had authority to transfer children living in one administrative unit or district to another for the school term without the payment of tuition. G.S. 115-352.- Petitioners contended principally that the State Board, in making its said order of May, 1954, did not in fact exercise its independent judgment and failed to comply with procedural requirements.

Whether the said order of May, 1954, was valid, is of no significance now. The controversy has become moot. The petitioners’ cause of action, if any they had, has ceased to exist.

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