Met. School Dist. of Sw Parke v. Vaught

This case comes to this Court on appeal from the denial of plaintiffs-appellants’ request for permanent injunction relief and a declaratory judgment. The requested injunction would enjoin the defendants-appellees, the Board of Election Commissioners of Parke County, Indiana, from holding a referendum election on the question of whether Wabash School Township, Raccoon School Township, and the Rockville Consolidated Schools, all located in Parke County, Indiana, should be formed into one metropolitan school district.

The facts surrounding this controversy are as follows:

Late in 1964, petitions…