Leighton v. Ossipee School District

The defendant school-district, at its annual meeting in March, 1889, under articles in the warrant for the meeting appropriately specific, “ Voted to build a suitable school-house in what is known as Fogg’s Ridge and Leighton’s Corner districts, also to build a suitable school-house in what is known as West Ossipee district,” raised the sum of $1,800 for building the schoolhouses and. other purposes named, and designated the school board as a committee to purchase the necessary land and to build and repair the school-houses. The sum of $1,800 was assessed and collected, of which about $800…