Legal Opinion

Bischoff v. High School District No. 4

Montana Supreme Court

Decided February 11, 1988No. 87-343Published

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt

Defendants, High School District No. 4 of Lincoln County and its trustees, appeal the granting of a writ of prohibition by the District Court, Nineteenth Judicial District, Lincoln County.

We affirm.

The sole issue in this case is whether Section 20-9-428, MCA, gives a school district board of trustees the authority to determine which electors are not qualified to vote and then deduct those they find to be unqualified from the list of registered voters used as the basis to compute the result of a bond election.

The facts are undisputed. On May 12, 1987, the appellant High School District No. 4…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Lynch v. BataniMontana Supreme Court · 1936
  2. Hehn v. OlsonMontana Supreme Court · 1960
  3. State Ex Rel. Stone v. District CourtMontana Supreme Court · 1936
  4. Woolsey v. CarneyMontana Supreme Court · 1963

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