Porter v. Iowa State Board of Public Instruction

This is a certiorari action brought by resident-taxpayers challenging the order of defendant State Board of Public Instruction approving an agreement between Northwest Webster School District and Raymur Acceptance Corporation, intervenors, for the leasing of a seven-room building to be erected by Raymur on school land adjacent to the existing school building. The County Superintendent had disapproved the plan and agreement. The district court held the agreement invalid and granted the writ. Intervenors have appealed. We affirm.

In 1960 Northwest Webster Community School District was…