OWENDALE-GAGETOWN SCH. v. STATE BD. OF ED.

Docket No. 64193, (Calendar No. 9).

413 Mich. 1 (1982)

317 N.W.2d 529

OWENDALE-GAGETOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 31, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of James F. Schouman (by James F. Schouman and Mark W. Chessman) for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Gerald F. Young, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant State Board of Education.


COLEMAN, C.J.

Plaintiffs are appealing the holding of the Court of Appeals that when property is detached from one school district and added to another, the matter need not be approved by a vote of the school tax electors of the district from which it is removed unless the parcel involved exceeds ten percent of the latest taxable valuation of the transferor school district. The issue is one of statutory construction. We conclude that the Court of Appeals decision...

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