Crane

In substance, it appears that in assumed compliance with statutory provisions affecting the matter, a petition for change in the boundaries of one school district that adjoined a second school district, so that a part of the area that had been included in the latter district would be taken from it and thereafter would • be included within the area of the first district, came on for hearing before the respondent board of supervisors, and that thereupon the said petition was granted and an order was en tered in accordance therewith. Thereafter, an individual taxpayer, acting in concert with the board of trustees of the school district which, by reason of the said action of the board of supervisors, was about to lose a part of its territory, procured a writ of certiorari to issue from the superior court for the purpose of testing the question of the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors to .make the order in question. A general demurrer to said petition was sustained by the said court; and it is from the ensuing judgment that the instant appeal is prosecuted.

The first question that requires consideration is whether an order made by a board of supervisors on a petition for change…