School District No. 4 v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This action was brought to recover for the tuition of pupils residing in Wallace county who attended high school in the plaintiff district. The plaintiff maintained an accredited high school at Winona in Logan county, established under the Barnes law. The adjoining county of Wallace does not operate under that law, and there was no high school in the district in which the students resided for whose tuition the action is brought. There was a community high school in Wallace county about sixteen miles distant from the homes of the pupils…