People ex rel. Brokaw v. Painter

To an information filed in the circuit court of Henderson county charging the appellees with usurping, without warrant or authority, the offices of president and members of the board of education of Terre Haute township high school, which was alleged to have no legal existence, and calling upon them to answer by what right they claimed to hold and execute said offices, they filed a plea of justification, setting forth in detail the proceedings for the organization of the district and their election, the substance of which was, that on March 8, 1914, fifty or more legal voters of the…