Haggard v. Gallien

Court.

Members of the Board of Education of Wayne County, holding office under Chapter 120 of the Public Acts of 1921, filed this bill challenging’; the constitutionality of Chapter 629 of the Private Acts of 1927, which provides for a new board for the administration of the schools of the County, and seek a declaration judgment. While other grounds are set up in the bill, we conceive the determinative issue to be whether the act provides (1) for a materially new system of school government, or ‘(2) for a change in form not real, but colorable only, with its purpose merely the deposing of one…