Des Moines Independent Community School District v. Armstrong

The question presented is whether section 297.5, Codes 1954, 1958, permits the directors of plaintiff, Des Moines Independent Community School District, to certify, and — if certified — requires defendant county board of supervisors to levy, an annual tax not exceeding one mill to be placed in the sehoolhouse fund and used for the purchase of schoolhouse sites. The district court, on agreed facts, gave an affirmative answer to this question. We approve the decision.

In the past the directors of plaintiff-district certified the amount of $125,000 to defendant board of supervisors who levied a…