Austin v. Board of Trustees of School District No. 5

The trustees of school district Wo. 5 in Babylon, which is a common school district, issued a notice of a special meeting of the district inhabitants (stated to be *539over 100 in number), for the purpose of deciding whether or not to erect a new sehoolhouse. This notice of a meeting to be held on the sixth of July, at seven-thirty p. m., was delivered to the clerk, who made no personal service thereof on any inhabitant of the district, but posted it in only three places —■ one on the corner of Herrick road and Copiague road, one on the sehoolhouse door, and one in the Copiague post-office. On…