State ex rel. Wright v. Dovey
Nevada Supreme Court
Application for mandamus. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Leonard, C. J.:
There are seven hundred and thirty-nine persons in Carson *397school district No. 1, between six and eighteen years of age, of whom fifty are wards of the state in the orphans’ home. In making his apportionment of the state school moneys to the county of Ormsby, respondent refused, and refuses, to include the said fifty wards among the persons entitled to be considered in the distribution of the public school moneys, and made said apportionment upon the basis of six hundred and eighty-nine persons between six and eighteen years of age in said district, instead of seven…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- United States v. KirbySupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- State v. KruttschnittNevada Supreme Court · 1868
- State ex rel. Truman v. McKenneyNevada Supreme Court · 1883
3Cited by4 opinions
- State Ex Rel. Keith v. WesterfieldNevada Supreme Court · 1897
- Donoghue v. Tonopah Oriental Mining Co.Nevada Supreme Court · 1921
- Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1912
- State Ex Rel. Cutting v. WesterfieldNevada Supreme Court · 1897