Jefferson Union Sch. Dist. v. City Council

In Jefferson Union Sch. Dist. v. City Council (1954) 129 Cal.App.2d 264, a school district was held to have a sufficient beneficial interest to bring a mandamus proceeding to test the validity of a city's annexation of a part of the territory of a school district where annexation would result in the exclusion of the territory from the school district. The reviewing court observed that if the city council lacked jurisdiction to proceed, it was "very much to the interest of the school district to obtain an early determination to avoid the confusion and loss of revenue that otherwise might ensue." (Id., at p. 267.)