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CHARLESTON SCHOOL DIST. 9 v. BD. OF EDUC.

No. 89-52.

778 S.W.2d 614 (1989)

300 Ark. 242

CHARLESTON SCHOOL DIST. NO. 9, Petitioner, v. SEBASTIAN COUNTY BD. OF EDUCATION, Respondent. LAVACA SCHOOL DIST. NO. 3, Petitioner, v. SEBASTIAN COUNTY BD. OF EDUCATION et al., Respondents. CHARLESTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9, Cross Petitioner, v. LAVACA SCHOOL DIST. NO. 3 et al., Cross Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 30, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Thompson, Fort Smith, Wayland A. Parker, II, Greenwood, for petitioners.

Stephen A. White, Charleston, for respondents.

DUDLEY, Justice.

These consolidated cases involve a territorial dispute between the Lavaca and Charleston School Districts. The circuit court declined to decide the issues joined by the pleadings and, instead, ordered that the case be decided by a special election. We reverse and remand.

We recite only those facts which are necessary for an understanding of this opinion. In 1929, the Sebastian County Board of Education ordered that Mays Chapel School District...

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