Whitaker v. Osseo Independent School District No. 279

Defendant school district appeals from a declaratory judgment rendering it liable for the cost of an audit of its books by the state public examiner, and from an order denying its motion for a new trial. We affirm.

The facts are undisputed. Sometime before January 29, 1971, a petition requesting an audit of the district’s books was circulated and presented to the county auditor. The petition appeared to contain the signatures of 2,557 freeholders in the district, more than the number required before the county auditor could properly certify the petition to the public examiner under Minn. St.…