Buhl v. Joint Independent Consolidated School District No. 11

I dissent. I regard this case as one of first impression here. The case of Hamilton v. Village of Detroit, 83 Minn. 119, 85 N. W. 933, relied upon in the majority opinion, to me seems clearly distinguishable. There this court held that a proposition submitted to the voters- for the establishment of an electric-light plant and the payment therefor by the issuance of bonds was not invalid as embodying two distinct propositions. In the instant case we have (1) acquisition of school houses, (2) betterment of schoolhouses and the payment for both projects by the issuance of bonds.

The general test…