School Directors v. Parks
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clinton county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding. This was a suit brought by W. ft. Schnyder and Caspar Krone, school directors of district number four, township three north, range one west of the third principal meridian, against John Parks, to recover back money alleged to have been improperly paid to the defendant out of the school fund. A trial resulting in favor of the defendant, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scholfield
Whilst appellee was school director, his co-directors drew, in his favor, two orders on the township treasurer, both bearing date the 19th of February, 1874.—one for $12.50, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, specified in the order as being “for eight days extra labor done in repairing the school house,” and the other for $18, with interest at the rate of six per cent, specified in the order as being “ for six cords of wood furnished the school.” Payment of the amounts was made by the township treasurer to appellee, on presentation of the orders for that purpose, out of funds…
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