Dowell v. Board of Education

This action was commenced in the trial court by the board of education of the city of Oklahoma City seeking a writ of prohibition and injunction to restrain Ethel E. Dowell, county superintendent of public instruction of Oklahoma county, from proceeding further in the matter of detaching a part of the Oklahoma City school district, an independent district, and creating a new common school district out of the portion sought to be detached. The trial court granted the writ and the county superintendent brings this appeal.

There is no dispute about the facts. On February 25, 1937, the immediate…