State ex rel. Mitchell v. McChesney
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jefferson District Court. — C. W. Vermilion, Judge. Action in quo warranto, to test the legality of the formation of the consolidated independent school district of Pack-wood, Iowa. It is claimed that the election was invalid. The incorporated town of Packwood has about 250 population, 200 of them in the south part of town, in one school corporation, and the others in another. Two ballot boxes were used.
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Appeal from Jefferson District Court. — C. W. Vermilion, Judge. Action in quo warranto, to test the legality of the formation of the consolidated independent school district of Pack-wood, Iowa. It is claimed that the election was invalid. The incorporated town of Packwood has about 250 population, 200 of them in the south part of town, in one school corporation, and the others in another. Two ballot boxes were used. The voters residing in the south part of town voted with a part of the voters residing outside the town limits, and those living in the north part voted with others in outside…
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
— A plat, though not set out in the record, but made up therefrom, will explain the situation more quickly and more understandingly than an attempt to describe.
i. schools and mfoTs; consoiiseparate’vote?' No. 9 Polk, including “the south part of the town situated in it, voted together, in one ballot box; and appellant’s complaint is that No. 1 Polk and Nos. 3 and 4 Black Hawk were compelled to vote with No. 4 Polk, including the north part of the town in No. 4. It is alleged in the petition that a majority of the votes cast by the voters residing upon the territory outside of the two school…
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