Board of Education v. State Board of Education

This controversy is occasioned by divergent views of the meaning of Title 70, ch. 21, S.L. 1945, subsection 8 of section 2. Relator asserts that it is entitled to the additional state aid provided thereby for the benefit of its separate schools and calculated by using as a factor the average daily attendance in the separate schools within relator district.

The defendants refused to allocate such additional state aid in view of lack of absolute clarity of the statute, particularly with reference to the restriction of such allowance to districts which levy and use income from 15 mills.…