Goddard v. Stockman
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Decatur Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The appellants, who were plaintiffs in the-circuit court, sued as taxpayers of Clinton township, Decatur county, to enjoin the collection of a tax levied for the purpose of aiding the Vernon, Greensburg and Eushville Eailroad Company, by subscribing, on the part of the township, to $11,000 of its capital stock.
*402A demurrer to the complaint was sustained by the circuit court, and final judgment was rendered upon it in favor of defendants.
The substance of the complaint is as follows : That plaintiffs were taxpayers of the township ; that on the 19th of July, 1879, a petition, purporting to be…
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