Trainer v. Wolfe
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIFFS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 138 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not shown.
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIFFS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CHESTER COUNTY. No. 138 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not shown. William E. Trainer and others filed a bill in equity against the “ School Board of the School District of Lower Chichester township ” and the Linwood Land Company, praying for injunctions restraining said school board from purchasing a certain lot of ground from the Linwood Land Company, and erecting a schoolhouse thereon; restraining John D. Goff, treasurer of said school board from paying out any moneys from the treasury of said school district…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
The ^complainants are taxpayers of the township of Lower Chichester, in the county of Delaware, and filed this bill in the court below to restrain the school board of the school district of said township from purchasing a certain lot of ground from the Linwood Land Company, for the purpose of erecting a schoolhouse thereon. The court below issued a preliminary injunction, as prayed for in the bill. It subsequently appearing that the purchase of the lot had been consummated before the injunction went out, the court below dissolved it. The case then proceeded to…
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