State v. Lawrence
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — No it. Paris Ch Stepp, Judge. (1) The court erred in admitting the evidence of C. D. Axtell, C. E. Banta and Ed Urton. They could not issue, nor attempt to issue, a valid school warrant separate and apart from each other. They might hind themselves, but could not bind the district. In order to issue a valid school warrant, the board must meet and their proceedings must be made a matter of record.
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Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — No it. Paris Ch Stepp, Judge. (1) The court erred in admitting the evidence of C. D. Axtell, C. E. Banta and Ed Urton. They could not issue, nor attempt to issue, a valid school warrant separate and apart from each other. They might hind themselves, but could not bind the district. In order to issue a valid school warrant, the board must meet and their proceedings must be made a matter of record. If their acts are separate and apart from each other, their acts are void, and no warrant they might issue, or attempt to issue, could or did have any value.…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
The defendant was tried at the November term, 1902, n the Grundy Circuit Court upon an information in four counts.
The conviction was upon the first count, which charged the defendant with an attempt to obtain by false representations and pretenses a school warrant of the ■value of $37.50 from incorporated School District Number Eight, Township Sixty-one, Range Twenty-three, in Marion township, Grundy county, Missouri, and from C. D. Axtell, C. E. Banta and Ed Urton, the di■rectors thereof.
In another count of the information defendant was *355charged with obtaining such school warrant hy such…
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