Boyd v. Mill Creek School Township

Mill Creek school township was sued by Boyd, assignee of a certificate issued by the township trustee who certified over his hand that there was due the plaintiff’s assignor the sum of $797.85, payable in one year, with eight per cent, interest, for erecting lightning-rods oh certain school-houses. Within issues duly submitted for trial, a jury returned a special verdict, from which we extract the following facts:

In 1885 the plaintiff’s assignor, by agreement with the trustee of Mill Creek township, furnished materials and erected lightning-rods on twelve school-houses in the township, the…