Prescott v. Town of Lennox

BeáRD, J.

This is a controversy over the title to a lot and the right of possession of a building-erected thereon, located in the incorporated town of Lennox. The territory within this municipality originally formed a part of the eighteenth school district of Shelby County, but was taken therefrom and legally organized into an independent corporation in the year 1896. Before the separation occurred, the lot was acquired and the building in question was erected by the predecessors in office of the complainants, who are the present school directors of the eighteenth school district, for- public…