State ex rel. School District No. 3 v. Mayview Board of Education
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Lafayette Circuit Court.—Hon. Vm. T. Wood, Judge. This was a proceeding by information in the nature of a quo warranto brought by the prosecuting attorney of Lafayette county at the relation of several school districts in that county for the purpose of testing the question whether the Board of Education of Mayview school district right fully exercised jurisdiction over certain territory described in the information.
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Error to Lafayette Circuit Court.—Hon. Vm. T. Wood, Judge. This was a proceeding by information in the nature of a quo warranto brought by the prosecuting attorney of Lafayette county at the relation of several school districts in that county for the purpose of testing the question whether the Board of Education of Mayview school district right fully exercised jurisdiction over certain territory described in the information. It appeared by the return to the writ that the town of Mayview was situated in district 6, T. 49, R. 26; that two of the complaining districts were situated in another…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, J.
On the 8th clay of February, 1874, an election was held in the town of Mayview, in Lafayette county, and in certain territory, four miles in length and one mile and a half in width, encompassing said town, but not attached thereto for school purposes, for the purpose of organizing the same into a single school district, under the provisions of the first section of the act of March 21st, 1870, in relation to public schools. At said election twotliirds of the qualified electors, residing in the territory described, voted for the adoption of the act aforesaid, and thereafter the further…
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- State ex rel. Nesbitt v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
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- State ex rel. Buck v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1915