People ex rel. Cherry v. Graves

We are not concerned with the finding of the Commissioner of Education on the merits as to the educational and economic reasons for the consolidation of these school districts. The questions before us test whether the district superintendent had jurisdiction to make the orders of consolidation. The contentions of the relators are:

1. That union free school district No. 1 was not within the jurisdiction of the district superintendent of schools at the time his orders of dissolution and annexation were made and that his orders were, therefore, void. In making the orders in question, the district…