Legal Opinion · Dissent

Pleasant Hill Independent School District v. Norris

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided February 10, 1959No. 49607Published

1DissentLarson, J.

I respectfully dissent.

I cannot concur with the majority in its interpretation of section 276.13. The opinion erroneously places emphasis, I feel, where it was not intended by the legislature. The statute provides : “When it is proposed to include in such district a school corporation containing a city, town, or village with a population of two hundred or more inhabitants, the voters residing * * * outside the limits of such school corporation shall vote separately # * (Emphasis supplied.) The petition herein did not propose such an inclusion when filed, for there was no incorporated town of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Harberts v. Klemme Community School DistrictSupreme Court of Iowa · 1955
  2. State ex rel. Hilfiker v. SeatonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1921

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