State v. Springfield Township
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Franklin Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtStuart, J.
Appeal from an order of injunction restraining the auditor, treasurer, and board of commissioners of Franklin county, from distributing the income of a certain school fund, alleged to belong to the appellee.
The fund in controversy is the proceeds of the sale of the sixteenth section in Springfield township. It is claimed that by the act of congress of April 19, 1816, that section was granted in every township “to the inhabitants thereof, for the use of schools.” The school law of 1852 treats the township fund as the property of the state, and its income subject to her disposal, for the use of…
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