Cornell v. Board of Education

The trial court sustained a motion to strike the plaintiffs ’ complaint and accompanying bill of particulars and the plaintiffs elected to abide by their pleadings and their action was dismissed at their costs and this appeal follows.

The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs were the owners of all beneficial interest and avails of sundry lots in Lyman Park Subdivision in Downers Grove, Illinois; that in 1934 they first learned that none of this land lies within the territorial area of the defendant corporation and therefore the defendant never had any authority or power to levy, extend,…