Posteher v. Pana Community Unit School District No. 8

On March 30, 1979, petitioners, Philip and Joyce Posteher, individually and as next friends of their children, Jean and Tara Posteher, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus and for a declaratory judgment in the circuit court of Christian County seeking a bus route other than that adopted by respondent school district. The basis for plaintiffs’ action, as stated in their complaint, is that the plaintiffs’ children are compelled to walk an unsafe route in order to board the bus at the designated pickup point, that plaintiffs’ children could be required to walk a distance greater than the…