Board of Commissioners v. Louisville, New Albany, & St. Louis Air Line Railway Co.
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Vanderburg Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtPettit, J.
This suit was brought by the appellee for a peremptory mandate, to compel the appellant to levy a tax, which it was alleged had been voted by the people of Crawford county to aid in the construction of appellee’s road, by taking stock therein, underact of May 12th, 1869. .
It will be a sufficient statement of the complaint to say it showed that all of the preliminary steps had been properly taken, including the vote and its proper return, showing a majority of forty-four votes for the appropriation, in December, 1869; that at the regular June session of 187CJ, the appellant had been requested…
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