Hight v. Board of Commissioners

The appellant sued the appellee on the following complaint:

“ The said plaintiff complains of said defendant, and says, that, on the 1st day of December, 1875, there was, and for one year prior thereto had been, pending in the Monroe Circuit Court of Monroe County, Indiana, and in the juawrence Circuit Court of Lawrence County, said State, indictments against divers persons, chargiug them with the murder of an unknown person at said county of Monroe; that the said defendants, at their December term, 1875, and in open court, a majority of said defendants concurring, for the purpose of more…