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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ross F. Brooks et al., Appellants, v. Walter B. Wyman et al., as Trustees of Central School District No. 3 of the Town of Crown Point, Respondents.
    
      Taxpayer's action — schools — action to restrain trustees of school district from selling bonds for erection of school building — school district not a municipal corporation.
    
    
      Brooks v. Wyman, 220 App. Div. 204, affirmed.
    (Argued October 5, 1927;
    decided October 11, 1927.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered March 18, 1927, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, which reversed an order of Special Term denying a motion for a dismissal of the complaint and granted said motion in a taxpayer’s action to restrain the defendants, trustees of a school district, from selling bonds and taking steps for the erection of a school building.
    
      Fred W. Dudley, Franklin A. Rowe and Roy Lockwood for appellants.
    
      Ralph E. Rogers for respondents.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; held, that a school district is not a municipal corporation within the meaning of section 51 of the General Municipal Law. (See General Municipal Law, § 2; Hamilton v. Baker, 243 N. Y. 578.)

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.