17 Iowa 16 | Iowa | 1864
None will claim that tbe statute, defining and regulating tbe duties and powers of tbe scbool board of dffiectors, invests them with judicial power. Tbeir acts and tbeir authority in tbeir nature are ministerial, and not judicial. Tbe superintendent, in reversing tbe same on appeal, is limited, necessarily, to tbe same subject, and to tbe exercise of tbe same bind of power, and when tbe statute says bis decision shall be final, it means simply as a ministerial act. This is further manifest, from tbe fact that § 2140 of tbe Revision, on tbe same subject, expressly withheld from tbe superintendent tbe power to render judgments for money, thereby showing that neither party is to be shut up to bis decision, so far as tbeir rights and remedies by legal procedure are concerned.
"We need not say tbe other ground of demurrer finds no support, and tbe order sustaining tbe same is
Reversed.