Union School District v. District No. 20
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, for tuition of children who reside in the defendant district with their parents or guardians and attend the high school of the plaintiff district. Transferred from the October term, 1901, of the superior court by Stone, J. There are three school districts in Concord, namely, Union School District, District No. 20, and the Town District. District No. 20 does not maintain a high school, or one of a grade corresponding to the high school in Union School District.
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Assumpsit, for tuition of children who reside in the defendant district with their parents or guardians and attend the high school of the plaintiff district. Transferred from the October term, 1901, of the superior court by Stone, J. There are three school districts in Concord, namely, Union School District, District No. 20, and the Town District. District No. 20 does not maintain a high school, or one of a grade corresponding to the high school in Union School District. The parents and guardians of the children residing in District No. 20 .and attending the high school in Union School…
1Opinion of the CourtBlodgett, C. J.
The sole contention of the defendant district is that the tuitions of the children resident therein who attend the high school of the plaintiff district should be paid by the city of Concord, in which both districts are situate.
We are unable to find any tenable basis for this contention. So far as appears, and as we take the fact to be,, each district has “ a .special, independent, and complete organization, and officers of its own having exclusive authority for the superintendence and government of its schools and the administration of all its school .affairs,” and is a distinct and separate…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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