In re Establishment of Independent School District

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

On February 15, 1974, a group of citizens, identifying themselves as a “majority of the taxable inhabitants” of the western portions of Hamlin and Sergeant Townships in McKean County, filed a petition with that County’s court of common pleas. Petitioners sought the establishment of an independent school district to be comprised *457of the territory of their residences, for the sole purpose of transferring that territory from the Smethport Area School District to the Kane Area School District. Section 242.1 of the Public School Code of 1949, Act of March 10, 1949,…