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CROWLEY v. SPEARFISH IND. SCHOOL DIST.

No. 16403.

445 N.W.2d 308 (1989)

Arthur E. CROWLEY, Sr., and Helen V. Crowley, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. SPEARFISH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, NUMBER 40-2 and its School Board Members Carleen Schlup, Richard Sleep, Larry Marshall, Ron Niesent and Richard Hovey, Defendants and Appellees.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided August 9, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed C. Richards, Deadwood, for plaintiffs and appellants.

Gary R. Richards, Spearfish, for defendants and appellees.

HENDERSON, Justice.

CASE SUMMARY

We hold that the Circuit Court did not err in dismissing a writ of mandamus. To obtain mandamus, appellants must first invalidate a quiet title action and defeat a right of reverter. Further, appellants now seek to establish legal rights through mandamus, which they cannot do. Appellants do not have standing to challenge a quiet title action. Standing is res judicata, decided in 1987, and the same parties are before us. The...

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