Downing v. Indiana State Board of Agriculture

Olds, J. —

This action was brought by the appellee, the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, a corporation created under an act entitled “An act for the encouragement of agriculture,’’ approved February 14th, 1851, against the appellants, claiming to act as individuals and as a State agricultural and industrial board, created by an act of the Legislature of 1891, entitled “An act abolishing the State Board of Agriculture and transferring all its assets, liabilities and credits to a State agricultural board; providing for the creation of the State Agricultural and Industrial Board,” etc., —which…