Board of Trustees v. Board of County Commissioners

*797The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J. :

This is an action originally brought in this court by the board of trustees of the Sumner county high school against the board of county commissioners of the county of Sumner and the county clerk, for the purpose of requiring the latter to meet as a board of canvassers and declare the proper result of a vote had at the general election in 1899 upon the proposition then submitted : “ Shall the Sumner county high school be maintained?” Chapter 186 of the Laws of 1897 authorized the board of county commissioners of Sumner county to lease from…