McDonald v. State Ex Rel. Gibbs

This action in mandate was brought by complaint (see §§1244-1248 Burns 1926) against the appellants, as members of the advisory board of Marion Township, Boone County, to compel them (in their official capacity as such board) “to meet . . . and to make such orders as may be required to enable said trustee (of Marion Township) to provide a suitable building and equipment for a joint elementary and high school for said township.”

The relators, who are voters and parents of school children in said township, in their complaint alleged, and at the trial proved, the following facts: Marion Township…