Wilkins Township School District
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 17, to October and November Term 1871. In the matter of the Independent School District of Wilkins township.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: No. 17, to October and November Term 1871. In the matter of the Independent School District of Wilkins township. On the 20th of May 1872, a number of taxable inhabitants of Wilkins Township School District, petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions, of Allegheny county, representing that they desired “the formation of the territory upon which they reside into a separate and independent school district,” and set out the bounds which they proposed for the new district; they prayed the court to appoint commissioners to view the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 13th 1871, by
Agnew, J.
In considering a question involving any of the important institutions of the state, as for example, the system of common schools, it is essential that the court enter into the very spirit of the legislation regulating it. Unless we do, it is liable to be impaired by a misconception of its uses and purposes. After twenty years’ experience under the common school system, the legislature, with a view to correct defects and perfect its operations, entered into a thorough revision of the laws regulating it, which resulted in…