Case Name: Loverin & a. v. School-District
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1887-12
Citations: 64 N.H. 616
Docket Number: 
Parties: Loverin & a. v. School-District.
Judges: Clark, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 64
Pages: 616–617

Head Matter:
[Sullivan,
December, 1887.]
Loverin & a. v. School-District.
In Equity. Reported 64 N. H. 102.
A. S. Wait, for the plaintiffs.

Opinion:
Doe, C. J.
The school-house lot having been conveyed to District No. 3, and the district having paid for it and built a schoolhouse upon it, an injunction against building a house there at the district's expense would not accomplish the plaintiffs' purpose. There is a prayer for a decree requiring the selectmen to assess a tax on District No. 3 for building a house on another lot which has not been bought, and which is not public property. If equity could give such a remedy under other circumstances, it cannot order a house to be built on land where the builders would be trespassers. It would first be necessary to set in motion the power of eminent domain for the acquisition of a public right. The prayer of the bill does not reach that point; and in the present position of the case the question of legal location is not a practical one. No objection being made to an injunction against the collection of the tax of $500, there will be a decree' for the plaintiffs on that part of the case.
Case discharged.
Clark, J., did not sit: the others concurred.