City of Evansville v. Bayard

The legal question involved in this case arises out of the following statement of facts presented to the common pleas :

“That the city of Evansville is organized and acting as a municipal corporation, under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, passed January 27th, 1847 (Local Acts, 1847, 3); that said plaintiff has resided, for the last five years, and still resides, within the corporate limits of said city; and that during all that time he has been, and still is, the holder of four hundred shares of the capital stock of the Evansville National Bank, of Evansville, Indiana,…