Spicer, Inc. v. Regional Board of School Trustees of La Salle County

Defendants appeal the trial court’s order reversing a decision of the Regional Board of School Trustees of La Salle County (hereinafter Board). The Board denied plaintiffs’ petition for detachment-annexation of certain territory. The trial court reversed that decision as being against the manifest weight of the evidence. Defendants also appeal an issue on the pleadings concerning plaintiffs’ failure to properly invoke the jurisdiction of the circuit court.

The plaintiffs filed a petition seeking to have certain territory detached from the Seneca school districts and annexed to Marseilles…