State Ex Rel. Hitchcock v. Farris

Appellant’s relators, suing as taxpayers of Elmore school township, Daviess county, Indiana, brought this action against appellees, the principal and sureties on the bond of Clifford Fanis, as trustee of said township, to recover money of the school township alleged to have been unlawfully paid out on a contract for the erection of a schoolhouse, which it was alleged had been entered into without preparing plans and specifications in advance or giving proper notice to bidders, but there were no allegations charging fraud. The defendants filed an answer of general denial and two paragraphs of…