Legal Opinion
Appelget v. Baird
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided December 5, 1967No. 1912PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarney, J.
The voters of Northfield have alternated between favoring and rejecting participation in a proposed union high school district. The affirmative vote came at a school district meeting on January 25, 1967, specially called to decide the issue of union with Berlin, Roxbury and Williamstown. At simultaneous meetings those towns also voted to join the union.
The sequence and significance of subsequent events can best be understood in the presence of some of the statutory requirements relating to the formation of union high school districts. 16 V.S.A. §612(a) reads:
When a majority of the voters of…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Cox v. Town of Mount TaborSupreme Court of Vermont · 1868
- Denicore v. City of BurlingtonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1950
- Town of Bennington v. VailSupreme Court of Vermont · 1952
- Martin v. FullamSupreme Court of Vermont · 1916
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Bethel v. Mount Anthony Union High School DistrictSupreme Court of Vermont · 2002
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- Cota v. Town School DistrictSupreme Court of Vermont · 1984
- Salmon v. StateVermont Superior Court · 2015
- Town of Groton v. UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 21Supreme Court of Vermont · 1968