School Directors of District No. 3 v. Fogleman
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cumberland county; the Hon. J. C. Allen, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Anderson Fogleman, for the use of Reuben Bloomfield, against the school directors of district Mo. 3, in township 9 M., range 8, in Cumberland county, Illinois, upon three orders drawn by previous directors on the township treasurer.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cumberland county; the Hon. J. C. Allen, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Anderson Fogleman, for the use of Reuben Bloomfield, against the school directors of district Mo. 3, in township 9 M., range 8, in Cumberland county, Illinois, upon three orders drawn by previous directors on the township treasurer. The defendants pleaded, first, the general issue; secondly, that no vote of the people of the district was ever had, or attempted to be had, authorizing the building of the school house, in part payment for the building of which…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was assumpsit, in the Cumberland circuit court, counting upon three orders drawn by a majority of the school directors of district Mo. 3, in township 9 north, range 8, in that county, in favor of A. Fogleman or order, on the treasurer of that town, one for seventy-five dollars, and two for fifty dollars each, all bearing interest at ten per cent, each of them purporting to be in part pay for building a school house in that district, and drawn payable out of any money belonging to the district specified.
The general issue was pleaded, and also a special plea averring that no vote of the…
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