School Township of Seventy-Six of Muscatine County v. Nicholson

The Evangelical Lutheran Society for Christian Charities is a charitable institution operating a home for the aged and infirm, and also a home and elementary school for minor children, who have no suitable homes or proper parental supervision. The institution is in the plaintiff school township, and is just outside the corporate limits of the city of Muscatine, and the defendant school district. The school is a private one, and not a part of the public-school system, although the pupils, after completing its course of eight grades, take the examination given by the county superintendent of…