Gruber, Trustee v. State, Ex Rel.

This was an action for mandate (Acts 1915 p. 207, §1244 Burns 1926, §1224 Burns’ Supp. 1921) by appellees, twenty-eight in number, as taxpayers-and school patrons of Redding township in Jackson county, and on behalf of eighty-seven others similarly situated, affected and interested, against appellants as trustee and members of the advisory board of that township, to compel them, as such officers, to establish and maintain a joint high school and elementary school in such township pursuant to Acts 1921 p. 322, §6843 Burns 1926, §6584b Burns’ Supp. 1921.

The complaint was in two paragraphs.…