Boring v. State ex rel. Jackson

On the 3d day of June, 1895, the township trustees of Hancock county, under provisions of section 2 of an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to provide for a general system of common schools, etc./ approved March 6, 1865, and adding supplemental sections thereto/’ approved March 8, 1873 (Acts 1873, p. 75; section 4424, R. S. 1881; section 5900, R. S.1894), met at the office of the county auditor and elected the relator superintendent of schools for the ensuing term of two years.

The auditor refusing to make a record of such election, or to accept and approve the oath of…