Trustees of Schools v. Harshman

The appellees, trustees of schools of town 13, range 5, in Moultrie county, filed their petition in the county court of said county to ascertain the compensation to be paid for one acre of land in the south-east corner of a forty-acre tract owned by the appellants, Lucius R. Harshman and Clement E. Harshman, which had been selected as a school house site. The defendants filed their motion to strike the petition from the files and dismiss the proceeding. The grounds of the motion were set out in a very lengthy document, which alleged numerous reasons why the petitioners were not entitled to…