Dyer v. School District No. 1
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a suit' in chancery, returnable to the March Term, 1872, Rutland County, brought by Horace H. Dyer and four others, “all being inhabitants and tax-payers in the present school district No. 2, in Rutland, who bring this bill in behalf of themselves and such tax-payers in said school district as may choose to come in and participate in the proceedings thereon, and contribute to the expense thereof.”
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This was a suit' in chancery, returnable to the March Term, 1872, Rutland County, brought by Horace H. Dyer and four others, “all being inhabitants and tax-payers in the present school district No. 2, in Rutland, who bring this bill in behalf of themselves and such tax-payers in said school district as may choose to come in and participate in the proceedings thereon, and contribute to the expense thereof.” The bill alleged in substance that districts Nos. 1 and 2 in Rutland were originally one district known as district No. 1; that on the I5th of April, 1871, said district voted to-build a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royoe, Oh. <1.
It appears from the pleadings and proofs that the ■school house in district No. 1 in Rutland was burned in 1866 or 1867, that -various attempts were made by the district and through the intervention of the selectmen of the town to procure a site upon which to erect a new house, but no such site had been secured prior to April, 1871. On April 15, 1871, at a meeting of said district, it was voted to build a new school house and to locate the same on the Blanchard lot, where it was subsequently built.' It was voted to take or purchase the…
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