Hill v. Lee County Board of Education

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a suit filed in the chancery court by the appellants, patrons of Moro School District B, to enjoin the Lee County Board of Education from putting into effect an order by which that Board consolidated the Moro District with Marianna School District A. The chancellors sustained the Board’s motion to dismiss the complaint for want of jurisdiction, holding that the plaintiffs should have appealed from the Board’s order of consolidation to the circuit court.

Petitions for consolidation of the two districts were filed with the Board. That body, purportedly acting…