Fobes v. School District
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM CIRCUIT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY. The facts of this case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
We do not entertain a doubt hut that a director of a school district can recover of such district *118the amount of any necessary expenses which he may have been put to, or incurred, in the prosecution or defense of a suit, brought by or against the district of which he is an officer. The law expressly requires that he shall appear for and on behalf of the district in all suits brought by or against the district, when no other direction shall be given by the qualified voters of such district, at a district meeting. Section 18, chap. 80, Ses. Laws, 1854; same provision in…
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