Board of Directors v. Blakesley

— An equity action was commenced by the claimed Board of Directors of the Menlo Consolidated School District of Menlo, Iowa, as a body and as individual members, to enjoin the secretary of the school district from continuing with the holding of a special election for the purpose of electing five new directors. The defendant secretary defaulted through the failure to file any pleadings. The intervenors filed a petition of intervention wherein they sought to have the court declare vacant the offices of the school directors who claimed to be the holders of that office. The intervenors also…