School District v. Wallace
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon, H. M. Ramey, Judge. (1) A single common school district, having a village within its boundaries, may organize into a village school district. There is no law, however, for two adjoining common school districts to jointly organize into a single village school district at the annual school meeting.
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Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon, H. M. Ramey, Judge. (1) A single common school district, having a village within its boundaries, may organize into a village school district. There is no law, however, for two adjoining common school districts to jointly organize into a single village school district at the annual school meeting. R. S. 1889, sec. 8083. (2) The action at .the annual meetings of these two districts at most could only operate as a consolidation of two districts into what might be properly called unorganized territory. There is no provision of law for organizing at…
1Opinion
ON MOTION NOE EEHEAEING-.
Smith P. J. —
The plaintiff suggests that in the consideration of the case we overlooked section 7972, Revised Statutes, which provides that: “If the assent to such change be given by all the annual meetings of the various districts thus voting * * * the district or districts * * * shall be deemed formed * * * from that date;” but in this it is in error as will be seen by reference to that part of the opinion in which it is said that: “It must be conceded that under the statute— section 7972, Revised Statutes — a new school district may be formed by the consolidation…
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