State ex rel. Dalton v. Joint Grenola Rural High School District No. 6

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action to have an adjudication that the organization of the Grenola Rural High-school District No. 6 in the counties of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk was null and void, and to enjoin the members of its district board and the county clerk and county treasurer from levying, certifying and extending on the tax rolls any tax levy for the support of the challenged school.

The basis of the state’s attack upon the organization of the district was the want of strict conformity with every initiatory step prescribed by the statute for its…