School District No. 6, Township 63, Range 29 v. Burris
Missouri Court of Appeals
Original Proceeding in Prohibition. (1) Under the statute, before there was anything for said district 5 to appeal from, or to give the county school commissioner jurisdiction of an appeal, and that would authorize him to appoint a board of arbitration to pass on an appeal, there must not only have been a proper, and legal notice posted in district 6, but also the qualified voters of said district 6, must have, when assembled at their annual meeting, “decided such question…
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Original Proceeding in Prohibition. (1) Under the statute, before there was anything for said district 5 to appeal from, or to give the county school commissioner jurisdiction of an appeal, and that would authorize him to appoint a board of arbitration to pass on an appeal, there must not only have been a proper, and legal notice posted in district 6, but also the qualified voters of said district 6, must have, when assembled at their annual meeting, “decided such question by a majority vote of those who vote upon such proposition;” * * * “but if all the districts, or part of the districts…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
This is an • original proceeding for a writ of prohibition. The facts of the ease, as disclosed by the record, are about these:
Eifteen days before the third day of April, 1900, the day fixed by law for annual meetings in the various school districts in the state, a petition was presented to the clerk of the relator district, which recited that it was deemed necessary that a new school district be formed of part of school district number five (5), township sixty-three (63), range twenty-nine (29), of Harrison county, and part of school district number six (6), township sixty-three (63), range…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- State ex rel. McCaffery v. AloeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1899
- Connecticut River Railroad v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Morrison v. MoreySupreme Court of Missouri · 1898
- State ex rel. Ellis v. ElkinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
- State ex rel. Blakemore v. RombauerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1890
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- State ex rel. Bank of Crane v. HawkinsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1908
- Ostmann v. FreyMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910
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