Jackson Township v. Barnes

The appellees, as plaintiffs, sued Jackson township, of Huntington county and the State of Indi*137ana, “ a corporation for the purposes of common schools,” as defendant, in the court below. Appellees’ complaint was in a single paragraph, and it was alleged therein, in substance, that on the 10th day of June, 1869, the appellant, by its agent, the township trustee, Michael Minnich, became indebted to D. D. Vandie & Co. in the sum of two hundred and eighty-eight dollars, with interest from date, for twelve sets of Monteith’s School Maps, purchased and used by appellant as school apparatus, and…