Chapman v. Sumner Consolidated School District

In this proceeding for the validation of school bonds upon a school-district election, it appears that 217 votes were cast in the election, of which 147 were for bonds and 70 against. Of this number the trial court held disqualified 19 of the affirmative votes and 12 of the negative, and adjudged that the total qualified voters actually voting in the election were 186, of whom 128 voted for bonds and 58 against. The Supreme Court held, in answering questions certified to it by this court and construing the amendment of 1918 to paragraph 1 of section 7 of article 7 of the constitution with…