State ex rel. Miller v. Board of Education

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The state brought this action to challenge the *702validity of the annexation of certain lands to the school district-territory of the board of education of the city of Humboldt, and to oust the board from the exercise of official powers over the territory involved, and to enjoin the levy and collection of school taxes pursuant to such questioned annexation.

The annexation here questioned is the culmination of many years’ effort on the part of the board of education to increase its territory so as to augment its straitened revenues. Most of its…