City of Lafayette v. State

Petition for a mandate by the appellee against the appellants, as follows :

“The said plaintiff' complains of said defendants, and says, that the relators are now, and for several years last passed have been, resident citizens, tax-payers and voters of said City of Lafayette ; that said defendant The City of Lafayette is now, and for ten years last passed has been, a municipal corporation duly organized pursuant to an act o'f the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,-entitled ‘An act to repeal all general laws now in force for the incorporation of cities, and to provide for the…