A. H. Andrews & Co. v. Curtis

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This case went off on demurrer. Appellant, a corporation chartered in Illinois, sued the trustees of a school district in Clay County on a promissory note executed by their predecessors, under the school law of 1884, for school furniture for said district; alleging that the furniture was necessary, and that the school community continued to use it, etc., and praying in the alternative to recover on a quantum meruit.

We are of opinion that the law did not authorize the trustees to bind the school district in the manner alleged, and that appellant’s only remedy was to…