Laughlin v. Franc

This appeal, while involving little from a monetary standpoint, is replete with confusion and legal prob lems. At the outset we are met with a peculiarity in the caption of the case as it comes to us, and as we must presume it was carried below. While Marie Laughlin is named as plaintiff: and Irene Franc as defendant, and the township officers merely as “appellees”, in fact as the matter was tried below Irene Franc was the plaintiff and Marie Laughlin and the other parties were defendants. Without doubt, Marie Laughlin instituted the controversies here by appealing to the township trustees to…