Board of Commissioners v. State ex rel. Baldwin

In this case the State of Indiana, on the relation of its attorney general, for the use of its common school fund, presented to the board of commissioners of Bartholomew county, for allowance and payment, a claim in two paragraphs. This claim was disallowed and rejected by the county board, and the State appealed from such action to the circuit court of the county. There the county board, as de*330feiulant, answered in live paragraphs, of which the first was a general denial of the State’s claim or complaint herein, and each of the other paragraphs stated a special defence. 'Flic State’s…