Old Mission Peninsula School District v. French

The subject of this litigation is a 50-year-old frame schoolhouse and the 1-acre plot of ground on which it stands. The land in question was sold to the predecessor of plaintiff school district by Frank A. and Alice B. French in 1893 for the sum of $50. The school was built thereafter and was used until consolidation of smaller districts into plaintiff district occasioned its abandonment in 1954.

When the plaintiff school district advertised this property for sale it received a bid of $4,300, conditioned upon its bringing a successful suit to quiet title. Thereupon plaintiff filed suit by…