In re Stone

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

On June 11, 1980, the appellants, thirty taxpayers of the school district of the City of Pittsburgh, acting without legal counsel, presented a petition to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County seeking the removal of Dr. John Conley as a school director pursuant to Section 318 of the Public School Code of 1949, *516Act of March 10, 1949, P.S. 30, as amended, 24 P.S. §3-318, which provides that -upon, a petition of taxpayers the court shall have the power to remove a director for, here pertinently, refusing or neglecting to perform any duties imposed upon it by the…