Joppa High School District No. 21 v. Jones

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant appeals from a summary judgment rendered against him by the circuit court of Massac County in an action brought under the Forcible Entry and Detainer Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 57, pars. 1 — 22) by the Joppa High School District of Massac County, Illinois.

In August, 1959, the Joppa High School District (hereinafter called the “school district”) hired Jones as its superintendent of schools. In April, 1963, the school district reduced Jones’s salary and allowed Jones to begin living in a house owned by the school…