Case Name: Fractional School District No. 1, of Owosso, etc. v. The Joint Board of School Inspectors of Owosso, Sciota, Bennington and Middlebury
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1873-04-10
Citations: 27 Mich. 3
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fractional School District No. 1, of Owosso, etc. v. The Joint Board of School Inspectors of Owosso, Sciota, Bennington and Middlebury.
Judges: 
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 3–3

Head Matter:
Fractional School District No. 1, of Owosso, etc. v. The Joint Board of School Inspectors of Owosso, Sciota, Bennington and Middlebury.
Certiorari: School district: Corporate existence: Quo warranto. A certiorari to review proceedings whereby a new school district has been created out of old. districts, must be applied for before the district has been organized and assumed the functions of a, corporation; after that time the proper course is, to take measures to try the legality of its corporate existence by quo warranto, or other direct proceedings against the alleged corporation or its officers.
Heard and decided April 10.
Certiorari to the Board of School Inspectors of Owosso, etc.
This writ was brought to reverse the action of town hoards in creating a fractional school district out of old districts. The action was taken in November, 1871, and the certiorari was sued out in February, 1873,
Hugh McCurdy, for plaintiff in certiorari.
Gould & Lyon, for respondents.

Opinion:
The Court
held that after the lapse of such a time it
can fairly be presumed that the district has been organized in faet, officers elected, and expenses incurred. The court will not, at this late day, review the proceedings on certiorari, to which the district or its officers would not he parties; but if any one desires to contest the legality of the organization, he must proceed by quo warranto against the district or its officers.
Certiorari dismissed.