Metz v. Anderson
Illinois Supreme Court
This bill alleges that the trustees, in April, 1855, laid off and divided the township into nine districts, according to plat; that upon division, the inhabitants of district nine organized, purchased a school-house, and maintained schools until October, 1857, and levied sufficient tax to pay for school-house, ($2,050) ; that, on 5th October, 1857, the trustees, at the instance of citizens of district eight, without the knowledge or consent of a majority of district nine,…
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This bill alleges that the trustees, in April, 1855, laid off and divided the township into nine districts, according to plat; that upon division, the inhabitants of district nine organized, purchased a school-house, and maintained schools until October, 1857, and levied sufficient tax to pay for school-house, ($2,050) ; that, on 5th October, 1857, the trustees, at the instance of citizens of district eight, without the knowledge or consent of a majority of district nine, and without consulting and without regard to the wishes and convenience of a large majority of the inhabitants of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
It is contended by the counsel for the defendants in error, that the action of the school trustees, consolidating districts eight and nine into one district, was inequitable, and a gross abuse of their powers—so gross as to justify the interference of a court of equity to annul their act, it being a case not of the simple abuse of powers, but the inequitable exercise of conceded legal powers, and comes within the principles decided in the case of Grove v. The School Inspectors of Peoria, 20 Ill. R. 541.
In that case it was said, “ to lay off and divide the city into school districts, and from…
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