Fisher v. Beck

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Is rural high school district No. 1 of Stafford county within the operation of chapter 397 of the Laws of 1905 and the amendments thereto, known as the Barnes high-school law, and entitled to share in the benefits of that law?

For several years before June 24, 1915, school district No. 40, an ordinary school district, had been in existence and in-*181eluded within its boundaries thirteen sections of land in Stafford county. For some time it had maintained a high school in compliance with the requirements of the Barnes law, and had…