Hale v. Brown
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lee Circuit Court. Hance N. Hutton, Judge. Schools must be conducted in each township or district not less than three months. Sand. & H. Dig., §§ 7029, 7049. The county court has jurisdiction to change and make districts. Sand. & H. Dig., § 6984. Discretion to grant or reject a petition to form a new school district is not left to the county court. Sand. & H. Dig., §§ 6988, 6989, 6990; Act April 1, 1895.
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, C. J.
This is a controversy over the formation of a school district in Lee county out of the territory of an old preexisting district, in this instance numbered 23. The petition for the formation of the new district was denied by the county court, and on appeal to the circuit court was granted, and the petitioners appealed to this court.
In the course of the hearing, petitioners asked the court to make the following declaration of law, to-wit: “ That, before a district can be divided, there must be an amount of'revenue from all sources to run the white and colored schools for at least three months/5…
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