School District v. Wallace
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon, H. M. Ramey, Judge. (1) A single common school district, having a village within its boundaries, may organize into a village school district. There is no law, however, for two adjoining common school districts to jointly organize into a single village school district at the annual school meeting.
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Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon, H. M. Ramey, Judge. (1) A single common school district, having a village within its boundaries, may organize into a village school district. There is no law, however, for two adjoining common school districts to jointly organize into a single village school district at the annual school meeting. R. S. 1889, sec. 8083. (2) The action at .the annual meetings of these two districts at most could only operate as a consolidation of two districts into what might be properly called unorganized territory. There is no provision of law for organizing at…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J. —
*322amendment: party: change of name: waiver *321This is a proceeding in equity which was instituted in the name of “Agency Village School District No. 3, township forty-six, range thirty-four, Buchanan county, Missouri,” for the purpose of enjoining the defendants from “in any way interfering with the plaintiff’s management of its school property, or drawing or otherwise obtaining or interfering with any public money belonging to it.” At the trial the plaintiff, over the objections of the defendants, was granted leave to amend its petition as to its name, by changing it so as to read:…
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