Landers v. Van Aukin
Oregon Supreme Court
From Douglas: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. Tbis is a suit by Henry Landers for bimself and on bebalf of sixteen others similarly situated, and Ollie F. Castle against L. M. Van Aukin, T. Gr.
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From Douglas: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. Tbis is a suit by Henry Landers for bimself and on bebalf of sixteen others similarly situated, and Ollie F. Castle against L. M. Van Aukin, T. Gr. Haven and-Weber, directors of school district No. 5, and James E. Sawyers, as county treasurer and tax collector of Douglas County, to enjoin said defendants from collecting a tax or creating any indebtedness for the purpose of building a new scboolbouse or condemning land as a site for the same. It appears that the directors of school district No. 5 in Douglas County called…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
1. The following excerpts from Chapter 172, Laws of 1913, being “An act to provide for the duties and powers of district school boards, including their acts in connection with incurring indebtedness of their districts and funding and refunding the same,” etc., are applicable to the case in hand:
“If authorized by a majority vote of the legal voters present at any legally called school meeting they shall purchase, lease or build schoolhouses, buy or lease *484land for school purposes, furnish schoolhonses with furniture, lights, and apparatus, and for such purposes may, when so authorized, levy not…
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