Independent School District No. 8
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to tbe Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county. On. the 22d February 1856, the following petition, for the formation of an independent school district, signed by twenty-three citizens of Sewickley township, was presented to the court below, under the Act 8th May 1855 (Brightly’s Purd. 1123, pl. 5):— “The petition of divers inhabitants of Sewickley township, now composing school No. 8, respectfully showeth: That your petitioners believe the cause of education would…
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Certiorari to tbe Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county. On. the 22d February 1856, the following petition, for the formation of an independent school district, signed by twenty-three citizens of Sewickley township, was presented to the court below, under the Act 8th May 1855 (Brightly’s Purd. 1123, pl. 5):— “The petition of divers inhabitants of Sewickley township, now composing school No. 8, respectfully showeth: That your petitioners believe the cause of education would be greatly advanced, by the honourable court forming them into an independent district, with the following boundaries,…
1Opinion of the Court
*299The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J.
The requisites of a proceeding to form an independent school district are, in most respects, the same with those necessary to erect a new township. The commissioners are not indeed confined to the consideration of the precise geographical division for which the petitioners ask, and perhaps it is not indispensable, as it is in a proceeding to erect a new township, that the order should contain an express and explicit direction to inquire into the propriety of granting the prayer of the petition, for it is not distinctly required by the Act of…
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