Case Name: CARR, Appellant, v. WAKONDA INDEPENDENT CONSOLIDATED DISTRICT NO. 2, et al., Respondents
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: South Dakota
Decision Date: 1920-07-27
Citations: 43 S.D. 222
Docket Number: File No. 4734
Parties: CARR, Appellant, v. WAKONDA INDEPENDENT CONSOLIDATED DISTRICT NO. 2, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Dakota Reports
Volume: 43
Pages: 222–223

Head Matter:
CARR, Appellant, v. WAKONDA INDEPENDENT CONSOLIDATED DISTRICT NO. 2, et al., Respondents.
(178 N. W. 881.)
(File No. 4734.
Opinion filed July 27, 1920.
Rehearing granted September 24, 1920.)
Election contest, by John ‘M. Carr, against Wakonda Independent Consolidated .School District No. 1 of Clay County, South Dakota, and W. O. Knight and others comprising the Board of Education of said School District, involving the legality of the organization of said district, and other issues. From a judgment dismissing the contest, and from an order denying a new trial, plaintiff appeals.
Reversed.
-See, Hodges v. Snyder, 43 S-. D. 166, 178 N. W. 575.
'Kirby, Kirby & Kirby, for Appellant.
W. O. Knight, and French, Orvis & French, for Respondents.

Opinion:
GATES, J.
This is an election contest involving, among other things, the legality of the attempted organization of Wakonda independent consolidated school district. It appearing from the record that the proceedings for consolidation were begun in the month of May, 1919, prior to the taking effect of chapter 170, Caws 1919, this cause is governed by the decision in Hodges v. Snyder, 178 N. W. 575.
For the reasons specified in the opinion in that case, the judgment and order appealed from are reversed.