Cowles v. School District No. 88

Citations

• 88 Kan. 603
• 129 P. 176

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>I. School Building Bonds—Election—Petition—School Fund Commissioners. Under chapter 257 of the Laws of 1911, which authorizes the voting and issuance of bonds for the building of schoolhouses in cities and school districts in excess of the amount permissible under limitations in force when the act was passed, provision is made that the permission to vote an excess amount must be obtained from the Board of School Fund Commissioners of the state through a petition of one-half of the electors of the district, asking the board of eduea- . tion or school district board to apply to the state board for the desired permission, and it is herein held that the purpose of the petition of the electors has been subserved when it has been presented to the school district board and the prayer of the petition is granted, and it is also held that the electors who signed the -petition asking the school district board to make the application to the state board have no right to withdraw their names from the petition after it is presented to and final action has been taken thereon by the school district board.</p> <p>2. - Same. Signatures to such a petition may be legally-attached by an- agent of the petitioner.</p> <p>3. - Election and Proceedings Legal. In the petition and order of permission herein the full amount of additional bonds permissible under the act of 1911 was asked for and allowed substantially in the language of the statute, and they are held to be sufficiently definite as to the amount of bonds desired and to be voted upon and also that the proceedings up to and including the vote upon the bonds were in substantial conformity with the statutory requirements.</p>