Case Name: Board of Education vs. Board of Education
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1884-01
Citations: 41 Ohio St. 680
Docket Number: 
Parties: Board of Education vs. Board of Education.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 41
Pages: 680–682

Head Matter:
Board of Education vs. Board of Education.
The board of education of a township established a central or high school under the provisions of the act of March 14, 1853, S. & G., 1346, as amended May 14, 1S68, S. & S., 712; and erected a building in a sub-district of the township for the use of the school, and the building was used, by agreement between the board of education and the local directors of the sub-district, for the central or high school and the school of the sub-district. The territory comprised in the sub-district after the establishment of the central or high school, and before the act of May 1, 1873, (70 Ohio Laws, 195), was formed into an incorporated village. Held :
That the property of the central or high school and the management of the school did not by virtue of said last mentioned Act, pass to the board of education of the incorporated village.
Error to the District Court of Trumbull county.
The board of education of Hubbard township, Trumbull county, in June, 1868, commenced proceedings under section 21 of the act of March 14, 1853,'to provide for the reorganization, supervision and maintenance of common schools, S. & C., 1346, as amended May 14th, 1868, S. &. S., 712, to establish in that township a central or high school. Their proceedings resulted in the establishment of such school and the location of a building for that purpose in sub-district number 5 in the township. In 1870, the building being completed, by agreement between the board of education of' the township and the local directors of sub-district number 5, the rooms in the second story of the building were used for the central or high school, and the rooms in the first story were used for the school in sub-district number 5. After the schools had been in operation for some time in this way, the territory comprised in sub-district number 5 was formed into an incorporated village. This occurred some time prior to the passage of the act of May 1st, 1873. The action in the common pleas was by the board of education of the village against the board of education of the township and the object of it was to enjoin the defendants from exercising any control or direction over, the school-house or over the school held therein, and to prevent them by injunction, from interfering with the sole use, direction and control of the school by the board of education of the village. The district court upon a trial on appeal found and decreed for the plaintiffs. It is now sought to reverse this decree.
Dio Rogers, Volney Rogers and C. A. Harrington, for plaintiffs in error.

Opinion:
McCauley, J.
The board of education of the township legally established a central or high school, and located the building for it in sub-district number 5 of the township. The building must have been located in some one of the sub-districts of the township. It is claimed by the board of education of the village that because the territory within sub-district number 5 was formed into an incorporated village after this central or high school was established, and prior to the passage of the act of May 1st, 1878, 70 Ohio Laws, 195, the 39th section of that act vested the board of education of the village with jurisdiction and control of all school property within the district. Section 4 of that act, now section 3888 Rev. Stats., provides: " That each village, including the territory attached to it for school purposes, and excluding the territory within its corporate limits detached for school purposes, shall constitute a school district, to be styled a village district." Section 39 of the same act, now section 3972 Rev. Stats., provides: "That all property, real or personal, which has heretofore vested, and is now held by any board of education, or the council of any municipal corporation, for the use of public or common schools in any district, is hereby vested in the board of education provided for in this title, having under this title jurisdiction and control of the schools in such district." The act of May 1st, 1873, repealed all provisions relating to central or high schools, existing at the time of its passage ; but it provided for the establishment of such schools, and provided also that obligations or liabilities in curred, and rights acquired under the provisions of any oí the acts repealed by it, should be in no wise altered or affected, but be enforced as if the act had not been passed. 70 Ohio Laws, 240. The township board of education had established a central or high school according to the statutes in force at the time the school was established. The act of May 1st, 1878, gave the board of education of the village control of all school property within the village district, and at the same time saved all rights which had accrued under former statutes. The right of the township board to the school property, and to the control and management of the central or high school, had accrued before the act of May 1st, 1873, and the rights of this board were, therefore, not affected by this act.
Judgment reversed.