Indianapolis Brewing Co. v. Claypool

The legislature of 1895 passed an act approved March 1, 1895, entitled “An act to establish a department of public parks in cities having more than one hundred thousand population, according to the last preceding United States census, and a board of park commissioners, defining the powers and duties of such board and matters connected therewith, and declaring an emergency.” Sections 7240-7261 Horner’s R. S. 1897, (Acts 1895, p. 63). The appellant brought suit against the appellees, who are the acting members of said board, and certain other officers appointed by the circuit court at the…