State ex rel. Coon v. Orr
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Glwrke District Court. — P. C. Winter, Judge. Ti-ie first of the above-entitled actions is in quo warranto, to test the right to hold the office of school director in the consolidated independent school district of Hopeville, Clarke County, Iowa.
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Appeal from Glwrke District Court. — P. C. Winter, Judge. Ti-ie first of the above-entitled actions is in quo warranto, to test the right to hold the office of school director in the consolidated independent school district of Hopeville, Clarke County, Iowa. Plaintiff claims that the district was never legally organized, and that, therefore, the persons claiming to have been elected directors thereof are not such officers, and that they have no right to exercise the functions. The case was tried to the court as in equity. The other cases were tried with it, under a stipulation that they…
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
*1023i Schools and te?ctsL- eonsoii- ■ fiiegfi fíoíísioí of territory. *10221. The several school districts sought to be consolidated are situated in three counties, Clarke, Decatur, and Union. No schoolhouse has been built in the new consolidated *1023district, and no bonds have been issued. No money has been spent, except that the persons acting as directors of the consolidated district rented a building or buildings, hired teachers, and maintained the school for the year now closed. As we understand the record, the schoolhouses in the several districts are in place.
On February 9, 1920, there was filed in…
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Mills & Co. v. CollinsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885
- State ex rel. Martinson v. Consolidated Independent School DistrictSupreme Court of Iowa · 1921
- Brooker v. LudlowSupreme Court of Iowa · 1920
- State ex rel. Kirchgatter v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1921
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- State Ex Rel. Odekirk v. PetersonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1924
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