CASTANA COM. SCH. DIST. v. STATE BOARD OF PUB. INSTR.

No. 52567.

155 N.W.2d 522 (1968)

The CASTANA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MONONA COUNTY, Iowa and Robert Erickson, Fred Anderson, Lester Dobrovolny, Sam Mann and Keith Davis, the Board of Directors thereof, Appellants, v. The STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, State of Iowa, the Individual Members thereof, Paul F. Johnston, Executive Officer of said State Board and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Joint County Boards of Education of the Counties of Monona and Harrison, State of Iowa, and the Individual Members thereof, G. L. Reinhardt, County Superintendent of Schools of Monona County, Iowa, and, to the West Monona Community School District Board of Education in the Counties of Monona and Harrison, State of Iowa, and the Individual Members thereof, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 9, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Morrow, Onawa, for appellants.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., and Prichard & Prichard, Onawa, for appellees.


MOORE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final judgment following the trial court's sustaining a motion to dismiss plaintiffs' petition alleging illegal acts by defendants in rejecting a proposal for a new school district in Monona and Harrison Counties. The well pleaded facts in the petition must therefore be considered as established for the purpose of this appeal.

On March 23, 1966 the Castana Community School District of Monona County, a non-high school...

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