CURLEW CONSOLIDATED SCH. DIST. v. PALO ALTO COUNTY BD.

No. 48786.

73 N.W.2d 20 (1955)

CURLEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellant, v. PALO ALTO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Pocahontas County Board of Education, Joint County Boards of Education for Palo Alto and Pocahontas Counties, John E. Smith, Palo Alto County Superintendent, and Frances Young, Pocahontas County Superintendent, Appellees, Mallard Consolidated School District in the Counties of Palo Alto and Pocahontas Counties, Iowa, Intervenor-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 15, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith & Hanson, Emmetsburg, and Linnan & Lynch, Algona, for appellant.

John J. Duhigg, Emmetsburg, for appellees Palo Alto County Board of Education and John E. Smith, Palto Alto County Superintendent.

James W. Hudson, Pocahontas, for appellees Pocahontas County Board of Education and Frances Young, Pocahontas County Superintendent.

F. C. Gilchrist, Jr., Laurens, and A. C. Carmichael, Pocahontas, for intervenor-appellee.


GARFIELD, Justice.

The sole question submitted to the district court and to us in this certiorari action is whether plaintiff consolidated school district, maintaining an approved central school, may be reduced in area below 16 sections of land, to approximately eight sections, by the formation of a community school district under chapter 275, Code 1954, I.C.A. We affirm the trial court's decision there may be such reduction.

Plaintiff's case is based entirely...

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