Sproul v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““But the action is not brought against any district or .corporation. The defendants below are sued by their individual names, with the description appended of ‘trustees of school district No. 98, Delaware township, Hunterdon county. ’ This is not the corporate name of the district against which the plaintiff’s claim is. Rev., p. 1076, § 38. The judgment is against the individual trustees, as must necessarily have been the case in the form of action adopted. The action should have been against the district by its true corporate name. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Webster v. Heywood