Burnett v. Board of School Inspectors
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to review proceedings detaching territory from a graded school-district, and attaching it to another district. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The object of this proceeding is to test the validity of the action of the defendants in detaching certain territory from school-district No. 3, and attaching the same to school-district No. 4, of the township of Chickaming.
The action must be held void, because the inspectors-did not have before them legal evidence of the consent of a majority of the trustees of district No. 3 to the alteration. How. Stat. § 5135, requires the consent of a majority of the trustees of the district, which consent must be spread. *104apon its records. In obedience to a call, tbe defendant board met November 4, 1892.…
2Cited by1 opinion
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