Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1888

Lebanon School District v. Trustees of Lebanon Female Seminary

Lebanon School District v. Trustees of Lebanon Female Seminary
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided March 5, 1888
9 Sadler 474; 12 A. 857; 22 Week. No. 65; 1888 Pa. LEXIS 934

Lebanon School District v. Trustees of Lebanon Female Seminary

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

There are three good reasons why this case should be affirmed: (1) The thirteenth and fourteenth sections of the act of the 14th of April, 1853, by which the legislature undertook arbitrarily to transfer the property of the trustees of the Lebanon Female Seminary to the school directors of the borough of Lebanon is unconstitutional and void; (2) the school district never accepted of nor complied with the condition of said act; (3) the school directors occupied the disputed premises under a lease from the trustees; and as this lease was executed in good faith by the lessors, the case is ruled, inter alia, by Harrisburg School Dist. v. Long, 7 Sad. Rep. 337.

The judgment is affirmed.

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