Matot

Matot v. Inglewood School District

Good Law
1925 Cal. App. LEXIS 574·71 Cal. App. 557·235 P. 667
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 6, 1925Docket No. 4918.California2,275 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Craig, J.

The city of Inglewood is a municipal corporation of the sixth class, within the county of Los Angeles, and prior to August 22, 1924, its boundaries were admittedly coterminous with those of the Inglewood School District. On that date certain territory lying within the limits of Jefferson -School District, and embracing the residence property of petitioners, was annexed to the city of Inglewood. After said annexation the above-named minors enrolled -as pupils of Inglewood School District, but respondents rejected them therefrom on the ground that they were pupils of the Jefferson District" and not entitled to attend the Inglewood School. An alternative writ of mandate issued herein, based upon a petition alleging the foregoing facts and a stipulation of the parties that the annexed territory is still a part of the Jefferson School District unless such annexation had the effect of removing the same therefrom and adding it to Inglewood School District.

Petitioners contend that by virtue of said annexation to the city of Inglewood, the respondent School District was similarly extended, and therefore that they no longer reside in the Jefferson District, and they invoke the…

concurrence Opinion

Finlayson, J.

We concur in the judgment on the ground that the question presented is concluded by the provisions of section 1576 of the Political Code as amended in 1917.

Respondents’ petition to have the cause heard in the supreme court, after judgment in the district court of appeal, was denied by the supreme court on May 4, 1925.

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