Mitchell v. Colgan

Citations

• 122 Cal. 296
• 54 P. 905
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 575

Syllabus

<p>“Whittier Reform School Fund”—“Support” of School—Erection of Buildings — Power of Trustees.—The “ Whittier Reform School fund,” established by the act of March 11, 1889 (Stats. 1889, p. Ill), as amended March 23, 1893 (Stats. 1893, p. 328), for the “support” of said school, and the “care and keeping” of the children committed thereto, cannot be resorted to by the trustees for the erection of buildings, however much needed, and contracts made by them looking to that end are unauthorized. The trustees are dependent upon appropriations made by the state legislature specially for the erection of buildings required for the use of the school, as a state institution; and have no power, merely as a corporate body, to divert funds dedicated by the legislature for a particular use to a different use.</p>