State Ex Rel. v. School District No. 23

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment entered by the circuit court in favor of the defendants, School District No. 23 of Union County, its directors, its clerk and First State Bank of Elgin. The action was instituted by the State upon the relation of one Joe Hallgarth, who is the owner of property situated in the school district. The relator claims that a consolidation order, which was entered June 14, 1945, by the Union County district boundary board, and which consolidated ten school districts into the defendant district, was not a valid order. Based upon that premise, he…