McCleary v. Babcock

The principal question in this appeal involves the construction of the statutes of the State concerning the voting of aid to interurban railroads incorporated under the street railroad act.

In July, 1904, a petition, signed by more than twenty-five resident taxpayers and voters of Wayne township, Kosciusko county, was filed with the board of county commissioners, praying said board to order an election for the purpose of voting upon the question of donating to the appellee Winona Interurban Railway Company, a corporation organized under the statutes for the incorporation of street railroad…