In re Duryea Borough School Directors

Flannery, J.,

— Citizens of the Borough of Duryea obtained a rule to show cause why respondents there named, being the seven members of the Duryea School Board, should not be removed from office.

The school directors, in turn, obtained a rule to show cause why the proceedings should not be dismissed, alleging as ground therefor: (1) That the rule was not made “returnable in not less than ten or more than twenty days from the date of issue therefor,” as required by the statute, and (2) that the rule was served on only two directors, the president and the secretary of the board.

*497There was a third…