Butt v. Jennings School Township

Morris, C.

The appellant sued the appellee to recover back money alleged to have been paid to it through a mistake in a settlement made by the appellant as trustee of the appellee, with the Board of Commissioners of Scott County.

The complaint is in three paragraphs. The first and second are substantially the same. They allege that on the 21st day of July, 1864, the appellee was indebted to one William Kinsey in the sum of $162, for work and labor performed, and materials furnished in building a school-house for the appellee, and within its limits; that Thomas Carr, then trustee of the…