Evins v. Batchelor
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court in Chancery, Dardanelle District. Jeremiah G. Wallace, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellees filed their complaint in the court below on the 21st day of February, 1894, against the appellants, alleging that the plaintiffs were directors of school district 54, within which lay a part of the incorporated town of Mt.
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Appeal from Yell Circuit Court in Chancery, Dardanelle District. Jeremiah G. Wallace, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellees filed their complaint in the court below on the 21st day of February, 1894, against the appellants, alleging that the plaintiffs were directors of school district 54, within which lay a part of the incorporated town of Mt. Nebo; that H. C. Cunningham, mayor of that town, had in 1893, in compliance with a petition signed by twenty persons, ordered an election as to the formation of a single school district in the town ; which election was held in the same year; that,…
1Opinion of the Court
HetghES, J.,
validity of crfsciiooiais-
(after stating the facts). The agreed statement of facts in- this case states “that on the 20fch day of July, 1893, the town organized itself into a single school district, in the manner provided by law.” This is conclusive in this case that the Mt. Nebo school district was legally formed. The fact that', after the incorporation of the town, and before the formation of the Mt. Nebo single school district, the clerk apportioned to it $225, though irregular, will not deprive that district of the apportionment, as it is provided by section 3, act of April…
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