Jones v. Lawson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Boone Chancery Court; B. F. McMahan, Chancellor; STATEMENT OE EAOTS. Appellees, who were the plaintiffs below, are directors of Common School District No. 31 in Boone County, Arkansas, and appellants, who are the defendants below, claim to be directors of a special school district created at the regular 1919 session of the General Assembly.
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Appeal from Boone Chancery Court; B. F. McMahan, Chancellor; STATEMENT OE EAOTS. Appellees, who were the plaintiffs below, are directors of Common School District No. 31 in Boone County, Arkansas, and appellants, who are the defendants below, claim to be directors of a special school district created at the regular 1919 session of the General Assembly. Appellants, claiming to act under the authority conferred upon them by Act 637 of the regular session of the 1919 General Assembly, took possession of the schoolhouse and lands of Common School District No. 31 and advertised them for sale.…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). Counsel for appellants base their right to a reversal of the decree solely on the ground that the Legislature committed a clerical error in describing the boundaries of Alpena Special School District in Boone and Carroll Counties, Arkansas. See Special Acts of Arkansas, 1919, p. 896.
Section 1 creates Alpena Special School District. It provides that the following territory in Boone and Carroll Counties, Arkansas, to-wit: Beginning on the Boone County line one quarter of a mile south of the northwest corner of section 14, in township 20 north, range 23 west, running…
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