State ex rel. McDiarmid v. Knight
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: Geo. Thompson, Circuit Judge. Certiorari to review the decision and order of the committee on common schools for St. Croix county consolidating school districts numbers 1, 2, and 4 in the town of Hudson into one district to be known as Consolidated rural school district No. 1 of the town of Hudson, St. Croix county, Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: Geo. Thompson, Circuit Judge. Certiorari to review the decision and order of the committee on common schools for St. Croix county consolidating school districts numbers 1, 2, and 4 in the town of Hudson into one district to be known as Consolidated rural school district No. 1 of the town of Hudson, St. Croix county, Wisconsin. The proceedings were begun by a petition signed by voters of the three districts, directed to the town board of supervisors of the town of Hudson, praying that the town board unite said districts into one…
1Opinion of the CourtVxnje, J.
Sub. (1), sec. 40.01, Stats. 1919, gives to town boards of supervisors, upon petition or their own motion, the power to “alter school district boundaries, and to create, consolidate or dissolve school districts.” But such altered or consolidated districts remain school districts, having the usual powers of an ordinary school district and no more.
Sec. 40.15, Stats. 1919, provides for the creation of consolidated rural schools by the filing of a petition by fifteen per cent, of the electors and the holding of an election of the voters of the district sought to be consolidated, the vote to be…
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- State ex rel. R. Connor Co. v. WallmanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
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