School District No. 116 v. Wolf
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Sedgwick district court; Thomas C. Wilson, judge. STATEMENT. This suit was brought August 7, 1906, for the purpose of having the order of A. D. Taylor, county superintendent of public instruction of Sedgwick county, which purports to detach a portion of the territory of school district No. 116, in that county, and attach it to. school district No. 141, declared invalid, and to enjoin the individual defendants from exercising the duties of the several offices of…
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Error from Sedgwick district court; Thomas C. Wilson, judge. STATEMENT. This suit was brought August 7, 1906, for the purpose of having the order of A. D. Taylor, county superintendent of public instruction of Sedgwick county, which purports to detach a portion of the territory of school district No. 116, in that county, and attach it to. school district No. 141, declared invalid, and to enjoin the individual defendants from exercising the duties of the several offices of director, 'treasurer and clerk of school district No. 116, and from exercising the duties of the official school board.of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.:
The principal questions presented in this case are: (1) Was the order of the county superintendent, .affirmed by the board of county commissioners, detaching the territory from school district No. 116 and attaching it to another school district, valid? (2) If this order was valid, it being conceded that each *808member of the school board at the time the order was made, and thereafter, was a resident of the detached territory, did this ipso facto create a vacancy in each of the offices of such school board?
The plaintiffs contend that the county…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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