School-District No. 4 v. Snell

This case originated in a justice’s court where the defendants in error obtained judgment. The plaintiff in error thereupon appealed to the circuit court, and the case being there tried without a jury, it resulted- as before, and the district brought error. The case was decided in the circuit court, upon a state of facts agreed upon, and the amount involved was substantially fixed by such statement at the sum specified in the judgment. The ground of defense was that the district was not liable at all.

It appears that in 1865, Snell was director, Booker moderator, and one Bemis, assessor of the…