Reese v. Hammond

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The appellant is a resident taxpayer of Flora township, Dickinson county, Kansas. He brought suit in the district court against the appellees, who are the township board and township'high-school board, to restrain them from establishing a township high school under chapter 278 of the Laws of 1913.

The city of Manchester, which contains about two hundred and fifty people, is located in Flora township, and appellant contends that the appellees have no power to establish a high school in that township under the act named above.

A demurrer to the…