Armstrong v. George
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Saline district court. STATEMENT. This action was commenced to enjoin the' collection of a tax levied in the year 1909 for the maintenance and support of three high schools in Saline county. These schools were in existence before the passage of the Barnes high-school law (Laws 1905, ch. 397), but their courses of study were afterward revised and the schools were made to conform to the requirements of that law.
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Appeal from Saline district court. STATEMENT. This action was commenced to enjoin the' collection of a tax levied in the year 1909 for the maintenance and support of three high schools in Saline county. These schools were in existence before the passage of the Barnes high-school law (Laws 1905, ch. 397), but their courses of study were afterward revised and the schools were made to conform to the requirements of that law. This was done in, the high school in the city of Salina in June, 1906, and in the others in the summer of 1907. At the general election in 1906, the proposition to adopt the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Benson, J.:
Nearly all of the objections to the tax which the plaintiffs seek to enjoin were urged in The State v. Pauley, 83 Kan. 456, and held to be insufficient. The contention in that case, however, that the high schools in Marshall county had not been established under the Barnes law, was disposed of by construing the agreed statement and pleadings as admitting that the schools had been so established. In this case the court found:
“That no new high schools were established in Saline county, Kansas, under the provisions of chapter 397 of the Laws of…
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- State v. RogersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
- State ex rel. Jackson v. PauleySupreme Court of Kansas · 1910
- Shepherd v. City of KansasSupreme Court of Kansas · 1909
- City of Leavenworth v. Leavenworth City & Fort Leavenworth Water Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1904
- Board of Education v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1910
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