Partlow Gates v. Monroe Township

OPINION

By KUNKLE, J.

Sec 3244, GC, provides for the organization of a township as a body politic and corporate, which, as such, may sue and be sued. This section further provides that the trustees of the township shall hold all such property in trust for the township.

Sec 3395, GO, provides for the erection of township buildings.

It is urged by counsel for plaintiff in error that the defendant trustees were not exercising a governmental function, but that defendant trustees were attempting to secure revenue out of the said building, and that their acts should be characterized as ministerial…