State ex rel. Martin v. Porter

We take from the brief of the appellant’s counsel in this cause the following summary of the relators’ verified complaint:

By an act of the General Assembly, approved March 11th, 1875, the “Commissioners for the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, provisional board,” were empowered “ to locate, construct, furnish, equip and open for the reception of insane persons, buildings” to be “known and designated as the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, department for women,” and to contract for the necessary work and to pay for the same “ by warrants directed to. the Auditor of State,” bearing “ the…