Malaga School District No. 115 v. Kinkade

In 1953, the Aluminum Company of America built a plant in the plaintiff school district. The assessed property valuation of the district was thereby raised from about two million dollars to nine and one-half million dollars. This naturally produced a disparity in the per-pupil valua tion among the school districts of Chelan county. Accordingly, the provisions of RCW 28.57.160 [cf. Rem. Supp. 1947, § 4693-23] and RCW 28.57.050 [cf. Rem. Supp. 1947, § 4693-32] were invoked to equalize the per-pupil valuation, and the territory in question, which included the plant site, was transferred from the…