IN APPEAL CASES Compiled for the Use of School Officers and Directors EDITION OF 1907 JOHN F. RIGGS PREFACE. In the compilation of the following decisions it has been our aim to select, as far as possible, only such cases as have a decisive bearing upon some important point of school law. There are many questions arising in the administration of these laws which the courts alone have power to decide. All questions involving the right and title to office, the interpretation of contracts, the right to levy and collect taxes, the payment of money, and any act of the electors of a school district, are matters that should be tried in the courts, and can not be determined by appeal to the county superintendent or to the superintendent of public instruction. Many of the appeals taken in the past have grown out of contention over the location of schoolhouse sites. As our state becomes more generally settled these questions arise with less frequency. When possible, appeals to the superintendents or courts should be avoided. The timely and judicious advice of county s.perintendents will do much more to secure amicable adjustment of many school controversies. A careful perusal and study of these decisions by the school officers will enable them to administer the laws so justly and intelligently that many of the unfortunate contests that too frequently involve school districts and neighborhoods may be avoided. July 4, 1907. JOHN F. RIGGS, Superintendent of Public Instruction. |