Scott v. Trustees of Schools

Certain residents of the territory comprising sections 13, 14, 23 and 24 in T. 16 N., R. 11, west of the 2d P. M., in Edgar county, sought to have it made a new district as No. 5, by taking said sections 13 and 14 from district No. 1, and the others from district No. 2, under section 47 of the School Act of May 21, 1849 (JR. S., Hurd’s Ed. of 1895, Ch. 122, Sec. 76). An order to that effect was made by the trustees, from which an appeal was taken to the county superintendent, who dismissed it, with a direction to their clerk to proceed as if it had not been taken. On a petition for a…