State Ex Rel. Milan v. Masters

The meritorious question presented by the rulings of the trial court is whether or not the school board of Shelby county was authorized by law to create the new school district, No. 81, by including therein territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Vincent, a town of less than 2,000 population, and which had theretofore constituted of itself a separate and complete school district.

Section 1693 of the Code of 1907 provides that “each incorporated city or town in the state is a separate school district.” This was a codification of the act of 1903, and was not changed by the act…