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61 Ark. 521

Evins v. Batchelor

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided January 15, 1896

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1896-01-15

Jeremiah G. Wallace, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellees filed their complaint in the court below on the 21st day of February, 1894, against the appellants, alleging that the plaintiffs were directors of school district 54, within which lay a part of the incorporated town of Mt. Nebo; that H. C. Cunningham, mayor of that town, had in 1893, in compliance with a petition signed by twenty persons, ordered an election as to the formation of a single school district in the…

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Decided 1896-01-15

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HetghES, J.,

¶1validity of crfsciiooiais-

¶2(after stating the facts). The agreed statement of facts in- this case states “that on the 20fch day of July, 1893, the town organized itself into a single school district, in the manner provided by law.” This is conclusive in this case that the Mt. Nebo school district was legally formed. The fact that', after the incorporation of the town, and before the formation of the Mt. Nebo single school district, the clerk apportioned to it $225, though irregular, will not deprive that district of the apportionment, as it is provided by section 3, act of April 8th, 1887, now section 6992, Sandels & Hill’s Digest, that “in case there be a surplus fund on hand at the time of the formation of said district [a new district], it shall be entitled to a proportionate part of said fund, the same to be ascertained and determined by the county court of the county in which said new district may be created, as in the judgment of said court may be right and proper.”

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¶4The district, when formed, was entitled to the apportionment, and it was not proper to deprive it of it because it was made before the district was formed. ,

¶5The decree is reversed, and the cause is dismissed.

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