School Directors v. Trustees of Schools

This was a bill in chancery, filed by appellants, in the Livingston circuit court, against the school trustees of township 28 north, of range 8 east, and the township treasurer, to restrain him from paying money collected from lands in certain sections to certain districts named in the bill, and to set aside the action of the trustees in re-districting the township. It appears that in 1869, the school trustees, under the statute, divided the township into nine school districts. But afterwards, at their regular annual meeting in 1870, they re-districted the township into seven districts, thus…