Thompson v. Morris

This suit involves the title to a tract of land that is 208 feet long from north to south and 100 feet wide from east to west. McCrory School District No. 12 formerly owned a larger tract of which this land is the west 100 feet. In 1947 the school board decided to close the school and to offer the property for sale at public auction. Two sales were held. At the first sale, in August, the appellee Gr. L. Morris bid $2,200 for the east 119 feet of the school property, which was the situs of the schoolhouse and is not here in controversy. -At the second sale, about a month later, the appellant…