Swink v. City of Dallas

The plaintiff in error, Rebecca Z. Swink, on the 4th day of December, 1924, filed this suit in the Fourty-Fourth judicial district court of Dallas county against the city of Dallas, the county of Dallas, the board of education of the city of Dallas, and E. W. Morten, to recover an acre of land, part of the site of what is known as the Cedar Lawn school, located, since the year 1888, within the limits of the independent school district in charge of and operated by the city of Dallas, through the proper officials. Upon a .trial of the case to a jury the court instructed a verdict against the…