Second School District v. Town of Glastonbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to compel the defendant to lay an equalization tax in the manner prescribed by chapter 146 of the Public Acts of 1909, relating to the town management of public schools, or to pay the plaintiff the just and true value of its school property, possession of which the town was alleged to have taken, or for other relief, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Ralph Wheeler, J'., upon a finding of facts, for the advice of this court.
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Suit to compel the defendant to lay an equalization tax in the manner prescribed by chapter 146 of the Public Acts of 1909, relating to the town management of public schools, or to pay the plaintiff the just and true value of its school property, possession of which the town was alleged to have taken, or for other relief, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Ralph Wheeler, J'., upon a finding of facts, for the advice of this court. By the Act in question (Public Acts of 1909, chapter 146, p. 1070) certain school property, consisting of a schoolhouse and the lot on…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The purpose of the statute under which the plaintiff’s school property was vested in the defendant, was to abolish school districts in certain towns and place the management of all the schools in the hands of the town, which, for that purpose, is made a school district. Its effect is to enlarge the boundaries of the different districts so as to make them correspond with those of the town. It is a general law, applying to all towns in the State except those which have a city or borough, or a district organized under a special act of the legislature, within their limits, and except those towns…
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