Woods v. Independent School District
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — W. Gr. Sears, Judge. The question is whether a suit may be maintained by a parent for the reasonable value of transporting his children to a school outside of his own district, the home school being unreasonably distant, without prior arrangement with the school board, and whether plaintiff’s claim has been so ratified as that the defendant is estopped now to deny it.
1Opinion of the CourtSalinger, J.
1. Appeal and error: presumption as to ruling. I. Plaintiff brought this suit in justice’s court. His petition alleged that the defendant is an independent district and school corporation under the laws of Iowa; that plaintiff has five children of school age, who live with him, and more than four miles from the schoolhouse in said district; that, to furnish school for them, plaintiff has been compelled to transport them, at his own expense, to and from said outside school for 19 weeks, and that such service is reasonably worth $95, and is due him from the defendant for such transportation.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Heiman v. FelderSupreme Court of Iowa · 1916
- Boyd & Williams v. J. J. Watson & Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1897
- Lacy v. County of KossuthSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898
- Templer v. School Township of EllisworthSupreme Court of Iowa · 1913
- Enix v. Iowa Central RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1901
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