Clark v. Allen

Under the purported authority of section 1526 of the Education Law, the Acting Commissioner of Education laid out the area constituted by three union free school districts and seven common school districts in Orange County for consolidation with the city school district of the City of Newburgh in that county. One of the districts to be thus consolidated is Roseton Common School District No. 5 of the Town of New-*145burgh. The petitioners include the trustees of that district as well as certain taxpayers and qualified voters therein. They resist the consolidation on the ground that the Roseton…