State ex rel. Jackson v. Pauley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Benson, J.:

This is an original action to compel a. county treasurer to pay to officers of a school district money arising from taxation for the support of a high school.

The answer avers that the taxes in question were levied under the supposed authority of chapter 397 of' the Laws of 1905 (see Gen. Stat. 1909, § 7792 et seq.), known as the Barnes high-school law, that the law was. never adopted in the county, that other acts relating to-the same subject and under which the district claims the fund are unconstitutional, and that no authority exists for…