Sanders v. Brown

On February 17, 1958, the school District Boundary Board of Big Horn County, Wyoming, consisting of the Board of County Commissioners, the County Treasurer and the County Superintendent, by a vote of three to two undertook to consolidate the Lovell, Cowley and Byron school districts and the Byron High School District, establishing a new district numbered 58. Virgil Sanders, plaintiff and appellant herein, a resident and taxpayer of Byron High School District, appealed from the order of the boundary board, alleging that the action was illegal and without jurisdiction. The district court held…