Chadwick, Treasurer v. City of Crawfordsville

The appellee sued to enjoin the/ appellant treasurer from collecting taxes for the year 1938 and subsequent years upon that part of the appellee’s municipal electric light plant and distribution system devoted to the manufacture and sale of electricity for commercial and domestic use. The appellant Thomas, a taxpayer, intervened by leave of court as a defendant.

The complaint is based on chapter 15 of the Acts of 1939 (Acts 1939, p, 24), § 64-221, Burns’ 1933 (Supp.), § 15518-5, Baldwin’s Supp., 1939, which provides: “That every city and town in the State of Indiana shall be exempt from any…