State ex rel. School District No. 117 v. School District No. 15
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Vernon Circuit Court. — Hon. Charles Gr. Burton, Judge. When a school district is, at an annual meeting, formed out of two other districts, and an enumeration .of scholars has been made residing in the two old districts the year previous, then should such new district receive that proportion of the public school fund distributed under Revised Statutes, section 7122, represented by the number of scholars in such new district who had resided in and been enumerated…
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Appeal from Vernon Circuit Court. — Hon. Charles Gr. Burton, Judge. When a school district is, at an annual meeting, formed out of two other districts, and an enumeration .of scholars has been made residing in the two old districts the year previous, then should such new district receive that proportion of the public school fund distributed under Revised Statutes, section 7122, represented by the number of scholars in such new district who had resided in and been enumerated with the •scholars of said old districts, when such distribution was made before the new district had an opportunity…
1Opinion of the Court
Black, J. —
The relators, who are directors of school district number 117, in Yernon county, sued out an alternative writ of mandamus, seeking thereby to compel the respondents, who are directors of district number 15, to draw their warrant on the county treasurer for *398ninety-three ‘dollars. The writ was quashed, and the question here is, whether the writ recites facts to warrant the relief asked.
The material facts disclosed by the writ are, that at the annual meeting of districts 15 and 16 for the year 1882, which, by law, was held on the first Tuesday of .April, a new district, numbered 117,…
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