Powell v. Trustees of Schools of Township 16

This appeal seeks a review of a judgment entered by the circuit court of Henry County wherein the plaintiff failed in his action for declaratory judgment to have fixed in him the title to a schoolhouse site located on his 120-acre farm.

The complaint herein was filed on October 13, 1949. It alleged that the plaintiff was the owner and in possession of a certain 120-acre tract and that the defendant Trustees of Schools is a corporation, and for many years, and until about two years previously, maintained and operated a public school on a small tract of about three fourths of an acre in area on…