Legal Opinion

Nixon v. Campbell

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided January 20, 1886No. 10,909Published

From the Fountain Circuit Court.

1Opinion

*52On Petition for a Rehearing.

Zollars, J.

But one question is made in the argument u]^on the petition for a rehearing, and that is, that the second paragraph of the complaint is good by reason of the averment therein, that' the railroad company failed to commence work upon the line of its road in the county or township within one year after the levying of the special tax.

Section 18 of the act of 1869, section 4062, R. S. 1881, provided two causes of forfeiture of the right to donations voted to railroad companies by townships. The first was a failure on the part of the railroad company to…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Wilson v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1879
  2. Caffyn v. State ex rel. RaderIndiana Supreme Court · 1883
  3. State ex rel. Putnam v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1884
  4. Sellers v. BeaverIndiana Supreme Court · 1884

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