Wilcox v. Burnham

The city of Nashua, like most other New Hampshire cities (Report of the Legislative Committee to Study the State Educational System (1946) 162, 163), and unlike most New Hampshire towns (Laws 1885, chapter 43; Wheeler v. Alton, 68 N. H. 477), under its charter is itself a school district. Laws 1913, c. 427, Part 1, s. 74. See Laws 1868, c. 6. It is expressly endowed with all the powers of a school district. Laws 1923, c. 227, s. 2. “Under the charter but a single corporation is created, viz., the city.” Toussaint v. Fogarty, 80 N. H. 286, 289. The issue presented by the defendants’ exception…