Board of Education v. Crill
Oneida County Court
This action is brought by the plaintiff, a 'domestic municipal corporation, which conducts a high school in the village of Holland Patent in this county, to recover the fee charged for non-resident pupils’ tuition, furnished to two minor children of the defendant during the school year 1909-10. "The defense is that the defendant and his children were in fact residents during that- period.
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This action is brought by the plaintiff, a 'domestic municipal corporation, which conducts a high school in the village of Holland Patent in this county, to recover the fee charged for non-resident pupils’ tuition, furnished to two minor children of the defendant during the school year 1909-10. "The defense is that the defendant and his children were in fact residents during that- period. The issue was tried before a justice and jury, and a verdict was rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff has appealed to this court upon questions of law.
1Opinion of the CourtHazard, J.
There is very little controversy about the facts in this case, but I think it may be stated that they *473are established as follows: The defendant for many years lived in the town of Floyd and was a property owner there. He was assessed upon real estate in that town, as a resident, in the year 1910. His two children, George, who was aged seventeen at the time of the trial, and Adelaide, who was then fifteen, had attended plaintiff’s high school in the year 1908-09. At that time they lived in the family home in the town of Floyd and were brought- down to school daily. Their tuition was paid for…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- In Re Revocation of Ancillary Letters Testamentary of the Estate of NewcombNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
- Frost & Dickinson v. BrisbinNew York Supreme Court · 1837
- People v. . PlattNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Kennedy v. . RyallNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Bell v. . PierceNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
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