Ash v. Thorp

The.opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J. :

At the last session .of the legislature an act was passed purporting to dissolve three school districts in Reno county and to attach the territory previously included in them to another district. (Laws 1901, ch. 339.) A demand by the clerk of the enlarged district for the records, books and papers originally belonging to one of the dissolved districts was refused by those holding them, on the. ground that the act was invalid. To compel a deliver of these and to test the constitutionality of the act, this proceeding was brought, and, upon…