Miltonvale Rural High School, No. 1 v. Clay County Community High School

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This was an action by a rural high-school district to recover tuition from a community high-school district, the principal question being the force and validity of the so-called statute for equalization of tuition. The trial court held the statute to be valid, and the rate of tuition under it to be three dollars per week per pupil, as more fully later detailed.

The facts of the case were stipulated in the trial court and for our purposes are summarized as follows: At all times involved plaintiff was a duly organized rural high-school district…