School district

A public and quasi municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority or direction, comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government, and support of the public schools within its territory in accordance with and in subordination to the general school laws of the state, invested, for these purposes only, with powers of local self-government and generally of local taxation, and administered by a board of officers, usually elected by the voters of the district, who are variously styled "school directors," or "trustees," "commissioners," or "supervisors" of schools.

See Hamilton v. San Diego Co.unty, 108 Cal. 273, 41 Pac. 305; Landis v. Ashworth, 57 N. J. Law, 509, 31 Atl. 1017; Travelers' Ins. Co., v. Oswego Tp., 59 Fed. 64, 7 C. C. A. 669; Board of Education v. Sinton, 41 Ohio St. 511.