State ex rel. School District v. Gordon
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) Section 9752, Revised Statutes 1899, contemplates only one vote and one loan for such buildings and furnishings as may be needed a.t one time in the judgment of the board of directors, (a) The statute says schoolhouses, not sehoolhouse. (b) The section, when treating of one loan and one set of bonds, speaks of bonds “for the erection of one or more schoolhouses to be erected on the same or different sites.”
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Mandamus. (1) Section 9752, Revised Statutes 1899, contemplates only one vote and one loan for such buildings and furnishings as may be needed a.t one time in the judgment of the board of directors, (a) The statute says schoolhouses, not sehoolhouse. (b) The section, when treating of one loan and one set of bonds, speaks of bonds “for the erection of one or more schoolhouses to be erected on the same or different sites.” (c) The ballot must read simply “For the Loan” or “Against the Loan.” (2) The following authorities sustain the relator’s position: (a) In People v. Caruthers School…
1Opinion of the Court
LAMM, I.
The State Auditor refuses to register and vise under section 5167, Revised Statutes 1899, 45 school bonds, 5-20’s, each of the denomination of $500, dated May 1, 1909’, interest at 5% payable semiannually evidenced by coupons attached, payable at the Mercantile Trust Company in the city of St. Louis and issued by the School District of Memphis, Missouri, for building purposes.
The Memphis school district sues out an alternative writ of mandamus. The Auditor enters his appearance through Mr. Attorney-General and, waiving the alternative writ, demurs. In this condition of things the…
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