Large v. District Township
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleges tliat he owns real estate and personal property situated thereon; that the real estate is, and for twenty years has been, situated in, and a part of, the civil township of DeWitt, and has not been set-off into the district township of Washington by reason of any streams or other natural obstacles.
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Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleges tliat he owns real estate and personal property situated thereon; that the real estate is, and for twenty years has been, situated in, and a part of, the civil township of DeWitt, and has not been set-off into the district township of Washington by reason of any streams or other natural obstacles. That the board of supervisors have levied upon said real and personal property, for the year 1878, a tax of fifteen mills on the dollar for school-house purposes iu the district township of Washington. The petition alleges that the property in…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
1. SCHOOL disarfeV-br°epeai of statutes, The legislation bearing upon the question presented is as follows: In 1858 the general assembly passed an act for the public instruction of the State of Iowa. . L ®ec^on 0Iie °*’ this act provides: “ That each civil township in the several counties of this State is hereby declared a school district, for all the purposes of this *665act, the boundaries of said townships being the boundaries of said school district, and ¿very township hereafter laid out and organized, a school district, and such district as at present organized, shall become a subdistrict…
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- District Township of Honey Creek v. FloeteSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
- Russell v. District Township of ClevelandSupreme Court of Iowa · 1896