Carr v. District Court
Supreme Court of Iowa
Certiorari proceedings to the defendants to review an order made in a contempt proceeding brought against certain individuals as members of a school board and others as individuals holding evidences of indebtedness against the school district for violation of certain writs of injunction issued by the District Court of Van Burén County, which proceedings resulted in the discharge of the defendants and their complete exoneration.
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Certiorari proceedings to the defendants to review an order made in a contempt proceeding brought against certain individuals as members of a school board and others as individuals holding evidences of indebtedness against the school district for violation of certain writs of injunction issued by the District Court of Van Burén County, which proceedings resulted in the discharge of the defendants and their complete exoneration. Petitioners in this case filed the information for contempt and are now prosecuting these certiorari proceedings.
1Opinion of the Court
Deemer, C. ■ J.
This case has a peculiar history and is so much involved that we shall have some difficulty in stating it with any degree of brevity or clearness. In the year 1900 the independent school district of Farming-ton, in Van Burén county, which we shall hereafter call the “school district/’ pursuant to a special election of the *665voters, issued and sold $10,000 in bonds at par for the purpose of erecting a new schoolhouse. Some time thereafter the school board passed a resolution authorizing the issuance of school warrants to the amount of $10,000 and directed their sale. The Farmers’…
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