School Law
1. An application to the township board to remove the moderator of a district, on the ground that he persistently refuses to countersign an order drawn by tlie director of the district on the assessor, involves an inquiry, in which the payee named in the order is an interested party. [Stockwell v. Township board of White Lake, 22 Mich., 341. 2. A proceeding before the township board to remove an oflicer of a school district is in the nature of a judicial investi gation; and when one of the board is interested in the subject of the complaint, and the presenee of such member is essential to the quorum, the proceedings are void. Ibid. 3. When either ot the members of the township board is interested in the subject for consideration he is not petent or able to act," in the sense of the statute; and such incompetency will justify the calling in of one of the remaiwing justiees. [Ibid. 4. Every special tribunal appointed by Ia is subject to the maxim that no person can sit in any cause in which he is a party, or in which he is interested. [Ibid. 5. The ïemoval of a school dirsrict assessor by the township board is reviewable on certiorari. [Merrick v. Township board, 41 Mich., 630. 6. Costs awarded by the supreme court in a proceeding by certiorari against persons composing a township board, to review their official acts, are to be collected like towuship charges, and not by execution against the officers personally. [Stockwell v. Township board of White Lake, 22 Mich., 341. Dr Woolsey of New Haven, in an interview with a Herald reporter, insists upon the desirability of securing uniform laws on the subject of nnrriage and divorce throughout the country. The statistics on the subject are very meagre, and thus far chiefly go to show the great pcpularity of divorce as an "institution." In 1878, forinstance, there were more divorccs granted in Massachusetts and Connecticut than in England and Wales togetlier. Connecticut down to that year permitted divorce for "any such misconduct as permanently destroys the happiness of the petitioner and defeats the purpose of the marriage relation," a provisión which practically made the matter one of judicial discretion; bwt in Massachusetts, where no sucli lavv has ever existed, and with a population of 1,783,000. six hundred divorces were granted' in 1878, agaiust eight hundred in England and Wales, with a populafcon or 24,000,000. Dr. Woolsey thinks that divorce lawyers are the most bitter opponents of divorce-law reform and of course they can bardly be epected to favor it; but behind them there is a láxity of public sentimen which makes permanent improvemen of the law difficult.
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