Bowling v. Grace

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Reversing.

■ The appellant, Eli Bowling, and Ms then wife, Ellen Bowling, in 1892 sold to the trustees of common school district No. 41 in Knox county about one-fourth acre of land upon which a sehoolhouse was to be erected. The land was sold to the trustees with the understanding that when it ceased to be used for school purposes the house and the land were to revert to the grantors or their heirs or assigns. A sehoolhouse was erected on the land, and in 1894 Eli Bowling and Ellen Bowling, his wife, executed a deed to the trustees of the school district…