Peers v. Board of Education of School District No. 3
Citations
- 72 Ill. 508
Syllabus
<p>1. School directors—powers limited to those specially defined by stat ute. A board of school directors, though a corporation, are possessed of certain specially defined powers, and can exercise no others, except such as result by fair implication from the powers granted.</p> <p>2. Same—have no power to make acceptances. A board of school directors have no power to make acceptances of orders or bills of exchange, so as to bind the school district and create a right of action thereon against them</p> <p>3. Action—will only lie against the pa/cty contracting. Where a party contracts to build a house for another, and to furnish the materials therefor, an action will lie in favor of the seller of the materials to the contractor, against the latter alone, not against him for whom the house is built.</p>
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- in statute concerning coal mines, cause of action for damages resulting from violation of those regulations was incidental or auxiliary to general subject
- constitutional restriction is obeyed if law’s provisions “relate to the one subject as indicated by the title, and in some reasonable sense may be considered as auxiliary to such subject”
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Judges: Sheldon
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