Baltimore, Ohio & Chicago R. R. v. Board of Commissioners

— On the 5th day of March, 1877, one William A. Dailey and one hundred other persons, who claimed, to be more than one-third of the legal voters, within certain territory, described by metes and bounds, filed their petition to the board of commissioners of St. Joseph county, in the office of the county auditor, in which petition they prayed the said board of commissioners to appoint a tiine for air election at which the sense of the legal voters might be taken by ballot, as to whether the territory described should be a corporate town, under the name of Walkerton. Such proceedings were had in…