Ladd v. Higgins

Counsel have not cited any case directly in point nor has any been discovered. R. L., c. 138, s. 3, authorizes school districts “to procure land for sehoolhouse lots and for the enlargement of existing lots,” and by section 2: “All districts legally organized shall be corporations, with power to sue and be sued, to hold and dispose of real and personal property for the use of schools therein, and to make necessary contracts in relation thereto.” While at an early daté school districts were called “quasi corporations with very limited powers” (Johnson v. Dole, 4 N. H. 478, 480), they are now…