Sheldon v. Centre School District
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, brought by thirty-nine persons, residents and tax-payers in the Centre District, West School Society, in the town of Suffield, alledging that the district had imposed a tax of seventy-five cents on the dollar, on the levy of 1854, for the purpose of defraying the expense of building a school-house, fence, well and for other necessary expenses and liabilities of the district; that the votes of the district in imposing the tax and directing the…
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This was a bill in chancery, brought by thirty-nine persons, residents and tax-payers in the Centre District, West School Society, in the town of Suffield, alledging that the district had imposed a tax of seventy-five cents on the dollar, on the levy of 1854, for the purpose of defraying the expense of building a school-house, fence, well and for other necessary expenses and liabilities of the district; that the votes of the district in imposing the tax and directing the building of the house, were illegal and void — an unreasonable and an unwarrantable abuse of power, on the part of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Waite, C, J.
The statute in force at the time when the votes were passed by the defendants directing a school-house to be built, and laying a tax to defray the expense, authorized every school district to build and repair school-houses, supply the same with furniture and appendages, and lay taxes for such purposes; and those provisions are substantially retained in the subsequent revision of the school law.
To the inhabitants-of a school district, the legislature has confided the power of determining the kind of school-house and other accommodations which they need for the use of the scholars…
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