Legal Opinion
Board of Education of the Union School District v. Goodrich
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided January 28, 1920No. Calendar No. 28,991PublishedCited by 17 opinions
Certiorari to Shiawassee; Collins (Joseph H.), J. Mandamus by the board of education of the union school district of Owosso to compel William R. Goodrich, secretary of said board, to give proper notice of a special meeting and election. From an order granting the writ, defendant brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
The union school district of the city of Owosso was created by Act No. 368, Laws 1871. It succeeded to the rights, duties, liabilities, property and territorial limitations of a former union school district and embraces the present city of Owosso with some outlying contiguous territory. The initial section of the local act creating it provides:
“Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the territory now embraced within fractional union school district number one, Owosso and *648Caledonia, shall constitute a single school district, and shall be known and designated as 'Union…
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