Trustees of Schools v. Rautenberg

In 1872, George Lohenhofer, Alexander Pereo, and one La Croix, were the trustees of schools in the village of Caholcia. They had a special fund, provided by a special act of the legislature, for school purposes, and building and repairing school houses, arising annually from the rents of certain lots in the village of Cahokia, formerly a part of the Cahokia common. In the summer and fall of that year, it was proposed to construct a school house, and there seems to have been much controversy among ,the people as to whether it should be constructed. The majority of the trustees, however,…