Landis v. Ashworth

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This certiorari brings up for review a tax levied in 1893 against the prosecutor for school purposes in School District No. 44, of Cumberland county.

The tax is assailed upon the ground that a school district is not a political division of the state possessing powers of local government, and therefore, under the decision in Baldwin v. Fuller, 10 Vroom 576; S. C., 11 Id. 615, taxes for public purposes cannot be levied exclusively upon the persons and property within it.

This contention seems to us not well founded. School districts are formed for…