Ellis v. State

Bill in chancery in the Marion Circuit Court, by Ellis and Spann, assignees of Jacob P. Chapman, state printer, to recover damages which, as such assignees, they alleged they had sustained by reason of the printing of the late constitutional convention having been withheld from them.

The bill charged that on the 3d day of January, 1850, Jacob P. Chapman was elected state printer, to serve for three years next after the 1st day of August, 1850; that he gave bond on the 5th day of January, 1850, as required bylaw; that on the 3d day of May, 1850, Ellis and Spann purchased from Chapman the right…