Jenks v. Lima Township

The plaintiff filed the following complaint with a justice of the peace:

“JVhthan JenJc-s complains of Lima township, in the county of Lagrange, and State of Indiana, and says, that at a special election in said township, on the --day of-, 1853, the proposition was submitted to the voters of said township, to assess a special tax upon the tax payers of said township, for common school purposes therein; that they voted in favor of such assessment, and the trustees thereupon assessed, or caused to be assessed, the sum of thirty cents on each hundred dollars of valuation of property therein, and…