State ex rel. Dunn v. Hamilton

On the 22d day of December, 1853, John P. Dunn, auditor of state, made affidavit that the Peru and Indianapolis Railroad Company had failed to furnish to the county auditor of Marion county, being the county in which the principal office of said company was situated, a statement of the property of said company, as required by the provisions of the act for the assessment of taxes; and, further, that the auditor of said county had also failed to prepare such statement, to supply the omission on the part of said company, as by statute he was required to do.

The affidavit was filed in the office…