American Oil Co. v. Marion County

The appellee, Marion County, by its board of supervisors, filed a bill to cancel a lease executed by the president of a predecessor board of supervisors in favor of Robertson, which lease, by assignments, had been acquired by the appellant, the American Oil Company; and for years the place leased had been used by it as a filling station — a lot of ground alleged to be a triangular strip of about thirty or forty feet.

The main allegation of the bill was that the predecessor board was without power to lease any part of the courthouse grounds, and that the lease was void. It was further alleged,…