McCray v. Cox
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Saline Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant petitioned the county court to annex contiguous territory to a single school district. Appellees, who are directors of the common school district from which the contiguous territory was to be taken, intervened to resist the application on the ground that the petitioners had not complied with section 7540, Kirby’s Digest, in regard to the giving of notice of the proposed change.
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Appeal from Saline Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant petitioned the county court to annex contiguous territory to a single school district. Appellees, who are directors of the common school district from which the contiguous territory was to be taken, intervened to resist the application on the ground that the petitioners had not complied with section 7540, Kirby’s Digest, in regard to the giving of notice of the proposed change. The county court granted the prayer of the petitioners, and, upon appeal, the circuit court found that it had no jurisdiction…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). The law applicable to annexing contiguous territory to a single school district is contained in section 7695, Kirby’s Digest, which reads as follows:
“The provisions of the general school laws of the State, which are now or may hereafter be in force, when not inapplicable, and so far as the same are not inconsistent with and repugnant to the provisions of this act, shall apply to districts organized under this act; and such provisions of such laws as are inconsistent with, and repugnant to, the provisions of this act, and inapplicable to districts organized…
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