South-West School District v. Williams

The complaint alleges a malicious injury by the defendants to the school-house and furniture therein belonging to the plaintiffs. The defendants’ answer denies the ownership of the plaintiffs, and alleges that the schoolhouse belonged to Ruth A. Williams, one of the defendants.

The plaintiffs in support of their title offered evidence to prove that in the year 1808 one Joseph Webster, then owner in fee of the land, made a gift of the same by parol to the plaintiffs for a school-house site, which the plaintiffs accepted, and immediately took possession and erected a school-house thereon, and…