Conley v. School Directors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was a petition by Nathan Conley and others, inhabitants of school district No. 10, in West Deer township, in the county of Allegheny, for a mandamus to John Caldwell and others, school directors of West Deer township, commanding them to appropriate a sufficient amount of public money for maintaining a public school in said sub-district No. 10; to do all things needful for keeping open a public school in the schoolhouse of…
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Error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was a petition by Nathan Conley and others, inhabitants of school district No. 10, in West Deer township, in the county of Allegheny, for a mandamus to John Caldwell and others, school directors of West Deer township, commanding them to appropriate a sufficient amount of public money for maintaining a public school in said sub-district No. 10; to do all things needful for keeping open a public school in the schoolhouse of said sub-district; to recognise by a proper entry upon their minute-book, the legal existence of said sub-district; and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J. —
This was an application for a mandamus to the defendants, to compel them to appropriate money for a public school in an alleged sub-school-district, in West Deer township, called No. 10. The petition also prays, that the defendants may be required by the writ to support a school, in a school-house erected in the sub-district; to recognise, by a proper entry upon the minute-book, the legal existence of said sub-school-district; and to place forthwith in the school-house a teacher, at a compensation, and for a period similar to the…
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- Chartiers Valley Joint Schools v. Allegheny County Board of School DirectorsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
- Chartiers Valley Joint Schools v. Allegheny County Board of School DirectorsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
- In re Ulster Township Independent School District, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Bradford County1954