Stephens v. Cherry Hill Special School District No. 10

The appeal seeks reversal of a judgment that Cherry Hill Special School District No. 10 of Polk County is not liable to W. E. Stephens for $458.66 claimed to be due as a balance on a three-year contract of October 28, 1940, to transport pupils in his bus. The District cross complained, claiming overpayment of $33.74, but did not appeal from an adverse finding.

It is stipulated that the District, in making application for State aid from the equalizing fund, certified that for the last 120 days of the 1940-’41 school term the number transported averaged 240.6. This was the basis for State…