Wheeler v. County Board of School Trustees

The action in the canse before us was instituted by a petition for detachment of a 100 acre tract of land from a school district known as the “Jordan School District” and for annexation to the Sterling Elementary School District. The County Board of School Trustees of Whiteside County denied the petition for detachment. Upon review by the Circuit Court of Whiteside County the decision was reversed.

Defendants on appeal seek a reversal of the decision of the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, and, in essence, assert that the County Board of School Trustees had acted within the limits of their…