THREE RIVERS JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT v. STATLER

No. 53192.

421 S.W.2d 235 (1967)

The THREE RIVERS JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT OF POPLAR BLUFF, Missouri, a body corporate and subdivision of the State of Missouri, and John Garver, William Becker, Bob Kitterman, A. S. J. Carnahan, James A. "Bud" Holloway and Ben Bidewell, Members of and Comprising the Board of Trustees of the Three Rivers Junior College District, Relators, v. The Honorable W. O. STATLER, Judge of Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Sitting as Special Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Scott, Jr., John D. Henson, Poplar Bluff, Ziercher, Tzinberg, Human & Michenfelder, Erwin Tzinberg, Robert C. Jones, Clayton, Armstrong, Teasdale, Kramer & Vaughan, Kenneth Teasdale, Bruce E. Woodruff, St. Louis, for relators.

Hendren & Andrae, John H. Hendren, Alex Bartlett, Jefferson City, Roy W. McGhee, Jr., Piedmont, John W. Belew, Doniphan, Edward M. Wetton, Van Buren, for respondent.

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., Louis C. Defeo, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for Missouri State Board of Education, amicus curiae.

Dietrich, Tyler, Davis, Burrell & Dicus, William J. Burrell, Clarence H. Dicus, Kansas City, for amicus curiae The Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri.

Armstrong, Teasdale, Kramer & Vaughan, Kenneth Teasdale, Bruce E. Woodruff, St. Louis, Ziercher, Tzinberg, Human & Michenfelder, Erwin Tzinberg, Robert C. Jones, Clayton, for all other amici curiae.


SEILER, Judge.

Prohibition. The essential facts are not in dispute. The Three Rivers Junior College District of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, was organized in 1966, under Secs. 178.770-178.890, RSMo 1965 Supp., V.A.M.S. It takes in all the territory in Butler, Carter, Ripley and Wayne Counties and very small portions of Stoddard, Bollinger, Madison and Reynolds Counties. It includes all the school districts in the first four...

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