In Re Plummer Freeholder Petition

Dispositive of these five cases is whether the appellants acted as individuals or as a school board when they appealed to the Keith County District Court to set aside the transfer of appellees’ lands to a different school district.

The district court held that the appellants were acting as a school board. It further held that the school board had no standing to challenge the transfer of land from its school district to another. The trial judge affirmed the transfer of appellees’ lands by the Keith County freeholder board and dismissed appellants’ cases. Appellants then appealed to this court.…