State ex rel. Clarke v. Board of Education of Jefferson Township Rural School District

The relators "filed an action praying for a writ of mandamus commanding the board of education to proceed at once to enter into a contract for the erection and construction of a schoolhouse at Westboro, for centralizing there the. schools of said township'rural district, and further praying that the board be enjoined from constructing the schoolhouse at any other point. A demurrer to the petition having been sustained, and judgment entered dismissing the petition, the relators prosecute error to this court.

The petition alleges that in 1915 an election was held in Jefferson township, Clinton…