Calamus Community School District in Clinton County v. Rusch

HARRIS, Justice.

This quiet title action arose from a dispute over the ownership of the site of an abandoned schoolhouse. Plaintiff is the school. Defendants are owners of the abutting land from which the site was taken. The trial court held for the school and we agree.

Defendants negotiated for the property after it was abandoned for school purposes in 1966 and in 1967 paid $200 down on its purchase. A dispute then developed on the total purchase price. The school agreed to sell for $1700; defendants insisted the agreement was for $1500. Without resolving the dispute defendants apparently with…