State v. Board of Education
Supreme Court of Minnesota
In proceedings in the district court for St. Louis county to enforce payment of taxes on real estate remaining delinquent on the first Monday in January, 1915, the Board of Education of the city of Duluth interposed its separate answer with respect to a certain parcel of land occupied by the Lester Park school. The facts were stipulated.
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In proceedings in the district court for St. Louis county to enforce payment of taxes on real estate remaining delinquent on the first Monday in January, 1915, the Board of Education of the city of Duluth interposed its separate answer with respect to a certain parcel of land occupied by the Lester Park school. The facts were stipulated. The matter was heard before Cant, J., who found that the land was exempt from taxation and from city assessments and ordered judgment in favor of the board of education canceling certain assessments against the property. From 'the judgment entered pursuant to…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
The board of education of the city of Duluth is a separate municipal corporation, and as such constitutes an independent school district of the state. It has the ownership and direction of all of the public schools of the city. ' .'
The home rule charter of the city of Duluth provides that the city shall have power to make local improvements and “to provide for the payment * * * of the cost of any such improvement by special assessments upon the property specially benefited thereby.” Chapter IX, § 60, Charter of 1912. Pursuant to this provision the city constructed a *388cement sidewalk on Tioga…
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