Board of Education v. Barrett

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The board of education of the city of Wichita invokes this court’s original jurisdiction in mandamus to require the county clerk of Sedgwick county to extend upon the tax rolls the school tax levy made by the plaintiff board upon all the property situated in and upon a certain tract of land adjacent to the city of Wichita, which was attached to the city school district on July 2, 1917. Prior to that date the territory and property sought to be subjected to the plaintiff’s school tax levy had been part of rural school district No. 63 of…