Lisbon School Distict No. 1 v. Landaff Town School District
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, for high-school tuition. Transferred from the March term, 1909, of the superior court by Chamberlin, J., on an agreed statement of facts. Prior to November, 1905, O. A. Wilson, father of the child for whose tuition recovery is sought, lived on a farm in Landaff. In that month he sold all his farming tools and stock, and soon after removed to Lisbon with his family and most of his household goods and kept house there.
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Assumpsit, for high-school tuition. Transferred from the March term, 1909, of the superior court by Chamberlin, J., on an agreed statement of facts. Prior to November, 1905, O. A. Wilson, father of the child for whose tuition recovery is sought, lived on a farm in Landaff. In that month he sold all his farming tools and stock, and soon after removed to Lisbon with his family and most of his household goods and kept house there. His family consisted of his wife and two children, one of whom attended the high school in the plaintiff district during the fall, winter, and spring terms of 1905-06.…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
“Any town not maintaining a high school or school of corresponding grade shall pay for the tuition of any child who with parents or guardians resides in said town and who attends a high school or academy in the same or another town.” Laws 1901, o. 96, s. 1. By section 2 of the same chapter, in case of refusal to make payment as required such town is made liable in an action to the town furnishing the tuition; while by section 3, provision is made for the reimbursement from the state treasury of the sums paid as tuition in proportion to the inability of the town itself to bear the burden, as…
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