State Ex Rel. Koontz v. Board of Park Commissioners of City of Huntington

Haymond, Judge:

The controlling question which arises on this writ of error is whether a statute of this State, which requires the annual publication of a financial statement by every municipal corporation, applies to the defendants the board of park commissioners of the City of Huntington and its members. The Circuit Court of Cabell County, in which this litigation was begun by the State at the relation of the State Tax Commissioner, after sustaining the demurrer of the defendants' to the original petition, heard the proceeding upon the amended petition of the relator and the answer of the…