LIBERTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT v. SCHINDLER

No. 48766.

70 N.W.2d 544 (1955)

LIBERTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Clemons Consolidated School District, and Merle Drew, Appellants, v. E. P. SCHINDLER, Superintendent of Schools for Story County, Iowa, and County Board of Education of Story County, Iowa, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haupert & Robertson, Marshalltown, for appellants.

Hattery & Miller, Donald L. Nelson, Frank H. Lounsberry, Nevada, and Lundy, Butler & Lundy, Eldora, for appellees.


GARFIELD, Justice.

The most important question presented on this appeal is whether an existing consolidated school district which does not maintain an approved central school may be reduced below an area of 16 sections of land by the formation of a community school district under chapter 275, Code 1954, I.C.A. We hold there may be such reduction.

Plaintiff Liberty Consolidated School District consists of 18¼ sections of land in Marshall county. May 7...

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