State ex rel. Connaughton v. Staley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

By this proceeding the state seeks to oust the defendants from exercising the powers and privileges of the high school board of Eagle township, King-man county, and contends that the proceedings taken for the establishment of a township high school and the election of a high-school board were so defective as to be wholly void. The case has been submitted upon an agreed statement of facts.

The statute involved is chapter 262 of the Laws of 1911, as amended by chapter 278 of the Laws of 1913. The statute provides that upon the presentation of…