State v. Consolidated School District No. 4C

(dissenting). — I respectfully dissent from .the

holding of.the principal opinion sustaining the action of the Chairman of the special school election meeting in denying Mr. and Mrs. Donica the right to vote on the annexation, proposition. They were qualified voters but had arrived a few minutes late, after the actual balloting but while the ballots were being counted. The statute, Sec. 10484, R. S. 1939, Mo., R. S. A. does not prescribe the hours within such meetings shall be held unless by its reference to Sec. 10418. And the- [503] latter merely provides annual school meetings shall…