69 Ind. App. 105 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1918
Appellants, as residents and taxpayers of Monroe school township in Kosciusko county, instituted this action to enjoin appellees from erecting a certain schoolhouse in said township and from
. In this view of the record, and appellants’ presentation thereof, we must now treat the special finding of facts made by the trial court as fully sustained by the proof. It appears from said finding that Monroe township originally contained seven school districts; that for several years prior to the decision to erect the schoolhouse here in question district No. 4 had been regularly and legally abandoned; that in district No. 7 the average daily attendance of pupils was less than fifteen and, for that reason, said district could be abandoned by the trustee; that in districts Nos. 2 and 5 a majority of the legal voters in each of said districts had filed with the trustee their petitions to have said districts abandoned and consolidated with other districts; and that the action taken by the trustee and the advisory board, as set put in appellants’ complaint,, was fox the purpose of providing a consolidated school building for the accommodation of the pupils in all the four districts above named.
Under the express provisions of §§6667, 6668 Burns 1914, §§4537, 4538 B. S. 1881, appellants’ remedy, in case of an abuse of discretion on the part of the trustee or an improper refusal to perform the duties required- of him, was by appeal to the higher school authorities.
No error appearing, the judgment <of the trial court is affirmed.