People ex rel. Township High School Board of Education v. Swanson

Mr. ChiEE Justice Dunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

Clover township and Oxford township, in Henry county, are adjoining townships, Clover township being east of Oxford. Each is a congressional township, consisting of thirty-six sections. In the spring of 1916 proceedings were taken under the act of 1911 for the organization of a high school district in a part of the territory of the two townships, being four miles wide north and south and five miles long east and west, consisting of twelve sections in Clover township and eight sections in Oxford township, the south line of the district…