SANTA ANA, Jan. 25—After a bitter legal battle extending over nearly five months, Laurel School District, in the western part of the county, has succeeded in withdrawing from the Las Bolsas Union High School District through a judgment given by Judge West today declaring illegal the order of the Board of Supervisors which placed Laurel in the high school district.
Las Bolsas High School District was formed in July 1903, from a number of the peatland grammar school divisions. In September following petitions were presented to the supervisors asking them to include Laurel district in the same division, representing that a majority of the Laurel residents and two of the three trustees were favorable to the change. Laurel’s position in the western part of the county, embracing the town of Los Alamitos, makes it almost impossible for children from there to attend the high school located several miles distant, and from the first tax payers registered a vigorous protest against their connection with the high school.
Finally, D.J. Parker commenced proceedings against then individual supervisors to have the original order of the Board reviewed and declared illegal. Among other allegations Parker claimed that signatures to the petition asking for incorporation of the district in the high school district were obrtained by paid solicitors from outside districts, securing names at the rate of 25 cents apiece, and that fraudulent names were presented to the Supervisors as the trustees of the district.
Judge West’s decision sets aside the order of the Board of Supervisors and declares that Laurel District is no part of the Las Bolsas Uni9on HIgh School district. Objections and demurrer of the defendants are overruled.
26 JAN 1905 – LA TIMES, pII-10
Laurel School pulled out — Finally Withdrawn from Las Bolsas District – Superior Court Decides orange County Supervisors order which placed school there was illegal.