State ex rel. Martindale v. Lauer

This action is prosecuted under the provisions of section 6339 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, to recover the statutory penalty for making and returning a false and fraudulent list of taxable property.

The complaint reads thus: “ The plaintiff complains of the defendant, and says that the said defendant now is, and has been for two years last passed, a resident of the city of Plymouth, in Center township, Marshall county, Indiana; that the assessor of said township, John A. Palmer, between the 1st day of April, 1886, and the 1st day of June of said year, gave to the defendant a blank schedule…