Special Tax School District No. 1 v. Hillman

The general question here presented is whether a court of equity can decree that the vendors have a lien for the unpaid purchase price on land which they had sold and conveyed to the Trustees of a special tax school district, to secure which the Trustees, as such, had executed their notes and mortgage on the land, and afterward erected a school building thereon, where neither such Trustees, nor the school district had any lawful authority to make the purchase or to execute the notes and mortgage.

This appeal is from two interlocutory orders, one denying a motion to dismiss the bill of…