Williamstown Graded Free School District v. Webb
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 42 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM ORANT CIRCUIT COURT. 1. It is only the “first election” that is required to be held on the first Saturday in June.
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Case 42 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM ORANT CIRCUIT COURT. 1. It is only the “first election” that is required to be held on the first Saturday in June. The time for future elections is left to the discretion of the trustees, with the limitation that they shall not be held oftener than once in two years. 2. The notice of the election was. sufficient to put before the voters the timé, place and purposes of the election to be held, and in taking • the sense of the voters as to the levy of the tax, the act was sub- „ stantially complied with. 3. Even if the election was invalid or irregular, the…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HOLT
delivered the opinion oe the court.
The Legislature, by an act approved April 15, 1884, provided for the establishment of a graded free school in Williamstown in lieu of common school district number one of Grant county, and to include the same territory. (Yol. 1, Acts 1883-4, page 1292.) Among its other provisions, as amended by a subsequent act, it authorized the trustees of the then existing district, after giving certain notice as to time, place and purpose, to hold an election on the first Saturday in J une5 1884, to take the sense of the voters as to whether the proposed school…
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