School District No. Thirteen v. Dean
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Kalamazoo Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed to enjoin the Board of School Inspectors of the Township of Oshtemo, Kalamazoo County, from proceeding to dissolve, reorganize or .alter School District No. 13 in said county; and also to account for certain taxes collected. The cause was heard upon stipulation, and a perpetual injunction was granted. The legislature has the power to organize school districts, either by special or general law.
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Appeal in Chancery from Kalamazoo Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed to enjoin the Board of School Inspectors of the Township of Oshtemo, Kalamazoo County, from proceeding to dissolve, reorganize or .alter School District No. 13 in said county; and also to account for certain taxes collected. The cause was heard upon stipulation, and a perpetual injunction was granted. The legislature has the power to organize school districts, either by special or general law. School District No. 13 was created by a special act, and the board of school inspectors have no power to destroy - or alter it…
1Opinion of the Court
Grates J.
On the seventh day of February, 1867, the legislature, by an act made to take immediate effect, established a school district numbered 13, in the Township of Oshtemo, in the County of Kalamazoo, and to constitute the same detached portions of the territory embraced in districts 3, 9 and 10 of the same township. The second -section of the act required that the same course should be taken for th organization of the new district as already prescribed by law in the case of districts formed by township inspectors.
The third section provided that the tax for district purposes in the…
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