Barker v. Wist

A petition was filed by appellants and one hundred other citizens of Kentucky - Township, in Madison County, with the -county court of that county, praying the court to organize a new township, to be known as Pettigrew Township, out of a -portion of Kentucky Township. A remonstrance was filed-by appellees and eighty-eight other- citizens 'of' Kentucky' Towns-hip. The court made an order -creating a new township,- and appellees prayed and perfected an appeal to the -circuit court.- ' •

• The'judgment, of the circuit-court'recites -that -the cause ‘‘was--submitted to the-court--upon the…