School City of Gary v. State Ex Rel. Artists' League, Inc.

This mandate action was initiated by appellee to compel appellants to pay to the appellee a sum equal to one-half (%) cent for each one hundred ($100.00) dollars of taxable property within the corporate limits of the School of Gary, Indiana, immediately and then a like sum each and every year thereafter. The relief requested was based upon Burns’ Ind. Stat. Ann. §§ 48-7712 — 48-7719. The trial .court found that the statutory scheme in question was not subject to the constitutional defects urged by the appellants and entered judgment for the appellee.

Burns’ § 48-7712 provides:

“Cities of over…