Board of School Directors v. School District No. 1
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL frdm the Circuit Court for Lincoln County. This action was commenced March 14, 1891, to recover $2,277.45, with interest, as the alleged surplus of credits and assets over liabilities existing January 1, 1887, at which time the plaintiff was created out of a portion of the original territory constituting the defendant, district. The complaint is in the proper form. The answer is a general denial, except as to corporate character.
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APPEAL frdm the Circuit Court for Lincoln County. This action was commenced March 14, 1891, to recover $2,277.45, with interest, as the alleged surplus of credits and assets over liabilities existing January 1, 1887, at which time the plaintiff was created out of a portion of the original territory constituting the defendant, district. The complaint is in the proper form. The answer is a general denial, except as to corporate character. A trial was had by and before the court, and the judge made and filed bis findings of fact and conclusions of law, by which, among other things, he found, in…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The facts in this case .bring it squarely within the same statutes and the same principles of law announced in the opinion filed herewith in the case of Board of School Directors of the Town of Pelican v. Board of School Directors of the Town of Rock Falls, ante, p. 428. Eor the reasons given in that opinion we must hold that the plaintiff is entitled to recover from the ■defendant fifty-sis per cent, of the credits and assets belonging to the latter at the time of the division, January 1, 1887, consisting of school-houses of the value of $1,850, and the uncollected school tax then on the tax…
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