Independent School Dist. No. 7 v. Barnes

GIVENS', Chief Justice.

Early in 1913 Elizabeth W. Barnes, appellant’s mother, gave Common School District No.-40 oral permission to use an acre of- ground in the southwest corner of a 40-acre tract owned by her, for school purposes, the land to revert to her if not so used.

The District immediately built a school house thereon and subsequently other ad-junctive buildings and structures were placed on the premises and school was maintained continuously from 1913 to the close of the school year in 1947.

In October 1919, appellant, who had succeeded to the ownership of the forty acres, executed a…