SHELBY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT v. HALVERSON

No. 52907.

158 N.W.2d 163 (1968)

SHELBY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Burton HALVERSON, Superintendent of Schools of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Defendant, Hancock-Avoca Community School District et al., Intervenors-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 9, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gamble, Riepe, Martin & Webster, Des Moines, for intervenors-appellants.

Smith, Peterson, Beckman, Willson & Peterson, Council Bluffs, for plaintiff-appellee.

George Knoke, County Atty., Council Bluffs, for defendant.


GARFIELD, Chief Justice.

This is a school reorganization controversy involving two school districts, each of which maintains a high school, and three smaller, non-high school districts. It was sought to merge the smaller districts with plaintiff Shelby Community School District by petitions for merger, signed by the requisite number of voters of each of the smaller districts, under section 275.40 Codes 1962, 1966. It was also sought to unite the same three smaller...

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