Merritt v. School District
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Arkansas Circuit Court. John M. Elliott, Judge. Appeal from a judgment awarding a mandamus, directed to James H. Merritt, county judge of Arkansas county, to allot its proportion of the school fund to School District No. 9 of Jefferson county, which had been detached from Arkansas county. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. 1. The county court of Arkansas county had no jurisdiction of the petition, School District No. 9 being in Jefferson county. Mansf.
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APPEAL from Arkansas Circuit Court. John M. Elliott, Judge. Appeal from a judgment awarding a mandamus, directed to James H. Merritt, county judge of Arkansas county, to allot its proportion of the school fund to School District No. 9 of Jefferson county, which had been detached from Arkansas county. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. 1. The county court of Arkansas county had no jurisdiction of the petition, School District No. 9 being in Jefferson county. Mansf. Dig., secs. 6175, 6176, 6177. 2, There was no final order or judgment for or against petitioners, and there was nothing…
1Opinion of the CourtHemingway, J.
1, Snd Apportion- £ of schoo It is unnecessary to consider the point pressed by the appellant, that the school district could not appeal from the order of the county court directing the distribution of the school fund received from the State. As the district, though detached from Arkansas county,* was included in the enumeration upon which the superintendent apportioned the fund to that county, it was entitled to share therein in the proportion which its children of school age bore to the children included in the enumeration. This was an absolute right, not dependent upon the discretion of…
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