State Ex Inf. Attorney-General v. Vickers

An information was filed by the Attorney-General in the nature of a writ of quo warranto, directed against the respondents exercising the offices of school directors of Consolidated District No. 4 of Laclede County, generally designated as the Wair Consolidated District. This is a companion case to that of State ex rel. Gentry v. Sullivan et al., ante page 362.

These cases involve the same issue, viz.: the validity of the consolidated school district named in each. They were instituted as original proceedings in the Supreme Court. A commissioner was appointed to take testimony and submit…