Board of Satanta Joint Rural High School District No. 2 v. Grant County Planning Board

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

This is an appeal from a judgment in a mandamus action refusing to compel the State Superintendent of Public In struction to issue an order transferring territory under the provisions of the Unified School District Act, K. S. A. 72-6743.

The act provides, insofar as material here, one planning unit for each county (K. S. A. 72-6736) and, recognizing that there were existing school districts extending over county lines, makes provision for the inclusion of such area in a planning unit by K. S. A. 72-6743. The area is designated as “gray-area”…