State v. Johnson

This was an action by the appellant against the appellee, as administrator of the estate of Jesse Faulkner, deceased, upon a written agreement executed by the decedent, in his lifetime, whereby he agreed to pay the State of Indiana the sum of three hundred dollars, upon the condition that the authorized authorities of the State should locate, at or near Plainfield, Hendricks county, Indiana, the reform school for juvenile offenders. The complaint avers a performance of the condition.

There was a trial of the issue formed, and a finding for the defendant, upon the ground that it was not…