People ex rel. School District No. 1 v. Ryan
Michigan Supreme Court
Application for mandamus-: On the petition of School District, No. One, of the township of Portage, to compel the Supervisor of the Township of Adams to levy certain taxes. In 1863 the School Inspectors of Portage had. organized the entire township into one graded and high school district, and at the annual meeting of the district in that year, a tax of $5,000 and the issue of bonds for a loan of $15,000, for the erection of school buildings, were authorized.
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Application for mandamus-: On the petition of School District, No. One, of the township of Portage, to compel the Supervisor of the Township of Adams to levy certain taxes. In 1863 the School Inspectors of Portage had. organized the entire township into one graded and high school district, and at the annual meeting of the district in that year, a tax of $5,000 and the issue of bonds for a loan of $15,000, for the erection of school buildings, were authorized. These acts were legalized by Act No. 52, of the Legislature of 1864, with a proviso, that the act should not be construed to prohibit…
1Opinion of the Court
Graves J.
The main question to be considered in this case, is, whether the creation of the township of Adams, by the Board of Supervisors out of territory, embraced by School District No. One, of Portage, severed all connection between the district and township; or left the people of the latter subject to the district, and liable for a portion of its debts. In considering this question our attention is properly confined to the case as it stands before us, and our decision will be regulated by what has actually occurred, and not by any supposition of what might have taken place, or what may…
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