Boutwell v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

• 128 Miss. 337
• 91 So. 12

Syllabus

<p>1. Schools and School Districts. Failure of- second consolidation order to describe the entire district held not 10 affect validity.</p> <p>The order and resolutions of a county board of education organizing four rural school districts into a consolidated school district are not void because such organization was the. result of two separate orders by such board made at different times, the first of which organized three of said rural school districts into a consolidated district, properly describing the territory of said consolidated district; and the other, the later order, added another rural school district, properly describing the territory therein, and recited that it should become a part of the consolidated district theretofore established under a certain name; the better plan, however (although not indispensable), is that the last order describe the entire territory in the consolidated district.</p> <p>3. Appeal and Error. Chancellor’s finding of fact on conflicting evidence not disturbed.</p> <p>On the issue whether or not a consolidated school district was improvidently organized in that it deprived a large number of the school children of the district of public school facilities, where the evidence is conflicting and the chancellor finds against that contention, such finding of fact will not be disturbed on appeal. .</p> <p>3. Schools and School Districts. Order for and report of bond election held insufficient to show compliance with statute as to place.</p> <p>Under chapter 194, Laws of 1916, section 4004, Hemingway’s Code, which provides that bond issue elections for consolidated school districts shall be held at the schoolhouse of said district, or, if there be none, shall be held at a convenient place designated by the trustees of the school, where the minutes of the board of supervisors provided that the election should “be held in said district on the 38th day of August, 1920, for ratification or rejection,” and the report of the election commiss