Wilson v. School Directors

This was a suit in chancery, brought in the court below, by the “ School Directors,” to compel a conveyance of a small tract of land used as a site for a school house in said district, to be made by Wilson to the school trustees of their township.

By the bill, answer and proof, it appears that for more than 20 years a school house had been upon the site, though the paper title was in Wilson and those through whom he derived title. About 1870 Wilson and wife signed and sealed a conveyance purporting to convey the land in question to the trustees “ for school purposes and no other.” This deed…