Davis v. School District No. 2
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions from the Eastern District Court, Allen J. presiding. Assumpsit for labor and materials expended by the plaintiff in repairing the school house in District No. 2, in Bradford. The materials and labor were necessary to render the school house fit to beep the school in, then about to commence.
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Exceptions from the Eastern District Court, Allen J. presiding. Assumpsit for labor and materials expended by the plaintiff in repairing the school house in District No. 2, in Bradford. The materials and labor were necessary to render the school house fit to beep the school in, then about to commence. Prior to incurring the expenses, a meeting of the school district was held on Oct. 27, 1838. One article in the warrant was, “To see what repairs shall be made on said school house, and when it shall be done.” At this meeting the district “ voted to authorize the district agent to lay out ten…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was by
Tenney J.
By a vote of the district, passed Oct. 27, J 838, *350the plaintiff, as agent, was “ authorized to lay out ten per cent, of the school. money belonging to the district this year, and ten per cent, of next year’s school money, or as near as may be, in repairing the school house in said district.” The plaintiff expended in the repairs, which the case finds to have been necessary to fit the school house for the school, that was then about to commence, the sum of $32,60, and received the sum of $15,92, which was the full amount of ten per cent, of the money…
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