Joint District No. 1 v. Joint District No. 1

The issue before this court is the ownership of tax funds collected on behalf of a non-operating school district.

On August 12, 1969, Joint District No. 2, Town of Dover, (hereafter the Dover School District) became a non-operating school district when the larger district of which it had been a part was dissolved. On August 14, 1969, a petition was brought before the Agency School Committee of Cooperative Educational Service Agency No. 18, State of Wisconsin, to attach the Dover School District to the adjacent Waterford School District.1 This petition was denied, and an appeal was taken to the…