Coal Township School District v. Coal Township Taxpayers Ass'n

Fortney, P. J.,

Petitioner, the School District of the Township of Coal, presented its *666petition for a decree construing section 563 of the School Code of 1911, P. L. 309, as amended, with respect to emergencies, and asked to have determined in particular whether the members of the board of school directors of petitioner have the legal right to create an increased debt in excess of the budget, to meet the demands of the teachers in the district for an increase in salary.

The admitted facts show that the board of directors of the School District of the Township of Coal, a school district of the…