Bevens v. Baxter

This suit was brought by Baxter as school commissioner of section 16, township 13 north, range 6 west, on a bond executed to McGuire, his predecessor in the same office.

A demurrer was interposed to the declaration on the ground that the special acts under which the plaintiff held the office of school commissioner for the section and township recited in the bond, and in the declaration, were private statutes, of which the court could not take judicial notice, and should have been set out in the declaration. The demurrer was overruled,' and final judgment for plaintiff.

For the acts in question,…