Mooney

The plaintiff obtained a writ of review from the superior court of Tulare county for the purpose of annulling an order of the supervisors of said county directing that Liberty school district shall become, and ordering the same to be made, a part of the Tulare high school district for high school purposes. Upon a return to the writ and a hearing thereon, the court rendered its judgment, annulling such order and all proceedings thereunder. Prom this judgment the respondents to the writ have appealed.

The return to the writ, which comprises the record before the board, shows that, upon presentation of a petition signed by certain of the heads of families in Liberty school district, the trustees of such school district and the trustees of the Tulare high school district joined in a petition to the board of supervisors of Tulare county, praying that Liberty school district be admitted to the Tulare city high school district, upon certain terms theretofore agreed upon between the boards of trustees; that upon the hearing of such petition the board of supervisors found that the signatures to the petition signed by the heads of families were sufficient in number, that the terms agreed…