Frick v. Trustees of Schools
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. George W. Pleasants, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
This ivas a bill in equity, brought by the Trustees of Schools of township 13 north, range 4 west, in Mercer county, in connection with the school directors of district Ho. 2, in the same township, against 'William Frick and Hattie Frick, to enforce the specific performance of a contract alleged to have been made in 1859, between the directors of the district and Frederick Frick, under which Frick agreed, for the consideration of $25, to convey one acre of land for a school house site.
On the hearing, on bill, answer, replication and proofs, a decree was rendered substantially as prayed for in…
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