State ex rel. Cornwell v. Allen

A complaint or information, as follows, was filed in the Vigo Common Pleas:

“The relator informs the Court that the defendant, Edward B. Allen, was duly elected Auditor of Vigo county, Indiana, in October, 1859; and that, after said election, he duly qualified, and entered upon the duties of the office, and continued to discharge the same till the 1st of August, 1862, when he vacated said office by abandoning the same, in this, to-wit: on said day he volunteered as a private, in company B, of the 11th regiment of Indiana volunteers, and, on the 14th of said month, with said regiment, was duly…