State v. Gill
Decision Date | 01 June 1905 |
Citation | 190 Mo. 79,88 S.W. 628 |
Parties | STATE ex rel. GAULT et al. v. GILL et al. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Quo warranto proceedings by the state, on the relation of J. W. Gault and another, against E. B. Gill and others, to oust defendants from the offices of school directors of a school district. From a judgment for defendants, relators appeal. Affirmed.
Ward & Hadley, for appellants. Frank P. Sebree, Silver & Brown, and E. B. Gill, for respondents.
Quo warranto to oust defendants from the offices of school directors of the school district of Dallas, in Jackson county, Mo. Appeal from the Jackson county circuit court. Judgment below for the respondents, and the relators appeal.
On the 13th of May, 1903, and for many years prior thereto, there was a common school district in said county, duly organized as school district No. 4, township 48, range 33, in which there resided about 50 qualified voters, and in which there was an unincorporated village called Dallas, a plat of which had been duly executed, acknowledged, and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of said county on the 15th of January, 1903. By section 9861, art. 2, c. 154, Rev. St. 1899, it is provided: ...
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