State v. Dearth

This action was filed in the superior court of Marion County, sitting as a court of claims. §§1550-1556 Bums 1926. A complaint was filed by appellee in said court of claims for salary due appellee for the month of March, 1927, in the sum of $350, for services rendered by appellee as judge of the forty-sixth judicial circuit of the State of Indiana. The facts alleged are not disputed.

To this complaint the appellant filed its answer in two paragraphs, and, omitting caption, signature of counsel and formal parts, the first paragraph is, in substance, as follows; “Comes now the State of Indiana,…