COPPAGE v. OHIO COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 91-CA-2064-MR.

860 S.W.2d 779 (1992)

Rex COPPAGE, James Huff, Roy D. Reardon, and Angila Staples, Appellants, v. OHIO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION by and through its members Linda LIKINS, Sara Hall, Earnest Whitely, Valkye Addington, and Lynell Funk; Grover "Butch" Canty, Superintendent of the Ohio County School District; Thomas H. Boysen, Commissioner of Education; the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; and the Kentucky School Facilities Construction Commission, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Discretionary Review Denied by Supreme Court March 12, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert D. Liebman, Phillip J. Shepherd, Frankfort, for appellants.

F.C. Bryan, William H. Fogle, Mt. Sterling, for appellees Ohio Co. Bd. of Ed. by and through its members Likins, Hall, Whitely, Addington and Funk, and Superintendent Canty.

J. Gary Bale, Frankfort, for appellees Boysen and Bd. of Elementary & Secondary Educ.

Charles D. Wickliffe, Frankfort, for appellee Ky. School Facilities.

Before GARDNER, HAYES and HOWERTON, JJ.


GARDNER, Judge:

Appellants appeal from a Franklin Circuit Court summary judgment order upholding the Ohio County Board of Education's decision to close Fordsville High School and consolidate it with the county's other high school.

The appellants are citizens, taxpayers, and parents of school age children in Ohio County. They brought this action, challenging the school's closing, against the members of the Ohio County School Board (the board) and its superintendent...

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