Ransom v. Pingel

This is a taxpayer’s action to restrain the defendants from installing and maintaining a tract index in the office of the county clerk of Toole county. The cause was tried to the court sitting without a jury, Honorable John Hurly, judge presiding. The court denied the relief sought, and this appeal followed.

The evidence, admissions in the pleadings or stipulations at the trial disclose the following facts: The county clerk already maintains the indexes required by section 4799, Revised Codes. The county commissioners deemed it advantageous to the county and to the best interests of the people…