STATE v. M.D. BONEBRAKE

No. 10524.

577 S.W.2d 430 (1979)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Gerald BONHAM, Joan Collins, Glen Painter and Lorene Brill, Individually and as representatives of the class known as all teachers employed by the Springfield R-XII School District, Relators-Appellants, v. M. D. BONEBRAKE, Mrs. John B. Bentley, Jack O. Cole, Theodore C. Salveter IV and William V. Turner, as officers and members of the Springfield R-XII School District, Respondents-Respondents.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two.

February 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Carver, Carver & Sotta, Joplin, for relators-appellants.

Kenneth T. Walter, Mann, Walter, Burkart, Weathers & Warden, Springfield, for respondents-respondents.


HOGAN, Judge.

In this mandamus action the relators sought construction and enforcement of § 163.031(9), RSMo (Supp.1973), which read in pertinent part as follows:

"[A] school district shall spend for teachers' salaries each year at least eighty percent of the state school funds received under this section that year as provided by section 163.061 and as much of the revenue produced by local tax levies as was spent for teachers' salaries the previous year...

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