Bauer v. Independent School District No. 656 Board

This is an appeal by petitioners from an order of the Rice County District Court denying them a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel respondent to consent to their petition for detachment, pursuant to Minn. St. 122.21.

Petitioners, Helmer and Karen Bauer, are owners of a parcel of land located within Independent School District No. 656, but which abuts and joins Independent School District No. 254 on the east and south of their land. For the convenience of schooling their children, they prepared a petition for detachment from District 656 for filing with the Rice County Board of…