Munson v. Minor
Illinois Supreme Court
This bill alleges that Munson owns the north-east quarter and south-east quarter, section 1, township 35 north, range 3 east, and lives on the south-east quarter; that said land is a part of school district No. 5, in Serena, township 35, range 4 east, and has been for six or seven years.
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This bill alleges that Munson owns the north-east quarter and south-east quarter, section 1, township 35 north, range 3 east, and lives on the south-east quarter; that said land is a part of school district No. 5, in Serena, township 35, range 4 east, and has been for six or seven years. That the directors of district No. 5, levied a tax of twenty-five cents on each $100 of property in said district, for 1858, and returned said Munson as one of the tax-payers ; but whether or not said tax was carried out, on the collector’s book, complainant does not know. That the north-east quarter is…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
It is urged that directors of district schools, have no power to levy taxes for school purposes without submitting the question to a vote of the inhabitants of the district. This of course depends upon the power delegated to them by the law creating them a board of directors. The 43rd section of the act “ To establish and maintain a system of Free Schools,” Scates’ Comp. p. 445, confers full power without any limitation upon the directors, for the purpose of erecting school-houses, or purchasing school-house sites, or for the repairing and improving the same, for procuring furniture, fuel and…
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