Garrett v. Board of Education of Chapmansville District

Hatcher, Judge:

The plaintiffs in this case are Edward and Nora Garrett, with whom join others designated in the bill as citizens, taxpayers and patrons of Barker School No. 9, in Chapmansville District, Logan County. They seek to enjoin the Board of Education of that district and its assigns from drilling for oil and gas on the school house lot. The circuit court sustained the demurrer to the bill, as amended, and certified the questions arising upon the sufficiency thereof to this Court for its decision.

The amended bill alleges as follows: that Edward and Nora Garrett owned in fee simple a…