Rhoades v. Bennett

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The controversy is over title to one acre of land which formerly constituted one-half of a public school campus.

Perhaps a century ago the lands of "William Whitmer, Andrew Shaver, David Shaver and Daniel Gish had a common corner. Each of them set apart one-half acre where the four tracts came together, thus creating a two-acre parcel, and upon it a school house was built.* It was given the name of “Philadelphia School,” perhaps indicating, as the appellee suggests, the friendly and neighborly spirit of the community. A school was…