Coal Township School Directors

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

These appeals are by four members of a third class district school board from a judgment and decree of ouster by the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County. A petition signed by one hundred and ten resident taxpayers of the district was filed in that court under section 217 of the School Code of 1911, for a rule on all the then school directors, numbering seven, to show cause why they should not be removed from office. The rule was granted, answers were filed and the case referred by the court to a special examiner (master) to take the testimony and return…