School Directors of Union District No. 2 v. Boomhour

Citations

• 83 Ill. 17

Syllabus

<p>Contract—not enforced when obtained by misrepresentations. Where an applicant for a school was informed hy the directors that a teacher had already been employed upon the condition she procure a certificate within a given time, and such applicant assured the directors that the teacher could and would not get such certificate, and, upon this, was employed to teach, but the teacher first employed did procure the certificate and was given the school, it was held, in an action by such applicant against the district for his wages, that, whether his representations of the facts were willfully or innocently made, they being untrue, he had no right to recover.</p>