Jordan v. School District No. 3
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Shepley, C. J. presiding. Assumpsit to recover tbe price agreed for building a school-house. It appeared by the record of a meeting held by the district on April 19, 1851, that one article was “ to see in what manner notice of future meetings shall be given,” under which they voted, that “the clerk call future meetings upon receiving a request of the agent or of any three legal voters of said district.”
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On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Shepley, C. J. presiding. Assumpsit to recover tbe price agreed for building a school-house. It appeared by the record of a meeting held by the district on April 19, 1851, that one article was “ to see in what manner notice of future meetings shall be given,” under which they voted, that “the clerk call future meetings upon receiving a request of the agent or of any three legal voters of said district.” The plaintiff introduced the following from "the district records:— “ Notice. “ To the legal voters of school district No. 3, in the towns of Lisbon and.…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
■ — The powers of school districts, or corporations, are limited, and defined by legislative enactments. These corporations can act only in such manner and upon such subjects as the law prescribes. Any acts, therefore, of the inhabitants residing within the territorial limits of a school district, upon matters not confided by the law to the jurisdiction of such corporations, or any proceedings in •a manner not authorized by law, would be ineffectual to bind the district in its corporate capacity.
Sect. 5, art. 2, c. 193, statute of 1850, provides, that school district meetings, on the written…
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