Adams v. Slate
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, for an injunction to restrain the defendants, as selectmen of Winchester, from assessing and collecting a tax and building a school-house. The facts were found at length by a justice of the court upon a hearing for a temporary injunction soon after the filing of the bill.
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Bill in Equity, for an injunction to restrain the defendants, as selectmen of Winchester, from assessing and collecting a tax and building a school-house. The facts were found at length by a justice of the court upon a hearing for a temporary injunction soon after the filing of the bill. The only legal question raised in the case is shown by stating that in March, 1885, the town of Winchester abolished the school-districts therein; that on June 3, 1886, the school board duly designated a location for a schoolhouse in the town district; that more than ten legal voters made a petition to the…
1Opinion of the CourtBlodgett, J.
The contention of the plaintiff, that the jurisdiction of county commissioners in the location of school-houses (Gf. L., c. 83, s. 6) extends only to towns divided into districts, is not well founded. The statute contains no such limitation, and none can be introduced without importing into it words which are not to be found there, or by giving to those used a meaning contrary to their natural signification. In the absence of any other legislative purpose appearing, the statute must be read as written. The legislature will be presumed to have intended what it said, and to have understood the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Blake v. OrfordSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1886
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