Smith, Trustee v. State, Ex Rel.

This action for a writ of mandate was brought on the relation of appellees, who are residents, citizens, taxpayers and voters of Monroe School Township of Carroll County and who are also parents, guardians or custodians of school children within such township, against appellants, the township trustee and advisory board, to compel them to establish and maintain a joint high school and elementary school in that township. The court overruled appellants’ demurrer to the complaint, sustained appellees’ demurrer to the answer, and, upon appellants’ refusal to plead further, rendered judgment…