Hackett v. Trustees of Schools

Appellants, plaintiffs in the trial court, appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Morgan County dismissing their complaint for an injunction and enjoining appellants from destroying, removing, carrying away and appropriating certain buildings to their own use, as prayed in appellees’ counterclaim.

The facts were stipulated and are: Appellants own a 40-acre tract of land from which, in 1878, one acre was conveyed by Andrew and Sarah Russell, appellants’ predecessors in title, to appellees, trustees of schools of township 13 north, range 10 west, in Morgan county, for $75. The conveyance…