City of Indianapolis v. Buckner

This action challenges the constitutionality of Chapter '287 of the Acts of 1951 (Acts 1951, Page 880) as a whole, and also, separately, certain of its individual provisions. The above act seeks to create a new municipal corporation, to handle various health and hospital problems in Marion County, to be known as the “Health & Hospital Corporation.” The new corporation is given such usual powers of a municipal corporation as the power to issue bonds and the power to levy taxes. Appellees are the challengers; appellants are the defenders.

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