Legal Opinion

Town School District v. School District No. 2

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided November 30, 1900PublishedCited by 9 opinions

■ Chancery. Pleard upon bill and supplemental bill and answers thereto, "Windham County, September Term, 1897, jRoss, Chancellor. Decree in accordance with the' prayer of the bill. The defendant school district appealed.

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■ Chancery. Pleard upon bill and supplemental bill and answers thereto, "Windham County, September Term, 1897, jRoss, Chancellor. Decree in accordance with the' prayer of the bill. The defendant school district appealed. The bill and supplemental bill were filed respectively May 29, 1897, and August 20, 1897, and set out that the selectmen of the Town of Brattleboro were threatening to divide the public school money then in the treasury of said town between the town school district and the Brattleboro Graded School District upon the basis of the aggregate attendance of scholars, and prayed…

1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.

It is provided by No. 130, Acts of 1890, approved Nov. 20, 1890, that certificates of qualification granted by the prudential committee of the Brattleboro graded school district shall have the same validity within that district as if granted under the provisions of the “present school law,” and that the district shall receive the same share of the public moneys or school fund as before the passage of the act. The plaintiff district claims that this act was repealed by No. 5, Acts of 1890, approved Nov. 26, 1890, which provides that no person, other than the principal teacher of the highest…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Williams v. EgglestonSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  2. State v. StollSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
  3. Neil v. KeeseTexas Supreme Court · 1849
  4. Williams v. School District No. 6Supreme Court of Vermont · 1860
  5. Town of Barre v. School District No. 13Supreme Court of Vermont · 1894

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Graham & Foster v. GoodcellSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. State v. AuclairSupreme Court of Vermont · 1939
  3. People Ex Rel. Kell v. KramerIllinois Supreme Court · 1928
  4. Caverly-Gould Co. v. Village of SpringfieldSupreme Court of Vermont · 1910
  5. Drouin v. Boston & Maine R. R.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1902

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