Morrell v. Hill

This is an action by sixty-two patrons of Pleasant View School District No. 4 to set aside a judgment by which the Franklin Circuit Court found that on March 1, 1949, the district had at least 350 children of school age and was therefore not automatically dissolved on June 1 of that year. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 80-426; Stroud v. Fryar, 216 Ark. 250, 225 S. W. 2d 23. This appeal is from the trial court’s refusal to vacate its earlier judgment.

After the above statute was adopted in 1948 this district annexed six other districts in an effort to avert dissolution for want of 350 enumerated pupils.…