Lykins v. Wolfe County Board of Education

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Sims

Affirming.

On this appeal we are asked to determine who gets an abandoned school lot under a reversionary clause contained in the deed by which it was conveyed. The chancellor in a concise and well written opinion held that the lot reverted to the grantor who executed the deed to the school and not to the subsequent grantee of the tract out of which the school lot was carved.

On May 25, 1899, S. C. Alexander and wife, Mary J., conveyed one-half an acre of land in- Wolfe County to the trustees of the Daysboro School District upon which to erect a school…