Shimer v. Butler University

Bicknell, C. C.

This was an action by the appellant against the appellee to recover $2,000, that being the price alleged to have been received by the appellee upon the sale ■of certain lands. The lands had been conveyed by the appellant to the appellee as a conditional donation, and the appellant claimed that the condition had not been performed. The case, in all its essential features, is nearly identical with the case of Moore v. Butler University, 83 Ind. 376, and grows -out of the same general transaction, to wit, the removal of the university to Irvington, and the donations made to secure…