State v. School Dist. No. 7, Lewis County

This is an action in mandamus brought by Roy Rice against the Members of the Board of Directors of Williamstown Consolidated School District No. 7, Lewis County, Missouri. The actual facts involved are not in dispute, but the manner of establishing the facts is questioned. The relator sought to and did prove by parol evidence that at the regular annual school meeting in 1933 or 1934 the qualified voters of the school district voted upon a proposition that free transportation be furnished the pupils of the district to and from school, and that the proposition carried, and was thereafter put…