Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Shrum

The complaint in this cause is substantially as follows: The appellee filed a claim in the commissioners’ court of Montgomery county, Indiana, on behalf of divers taxpayers of Union township, in said county, asking therein that certain money known as the fund for the purchase of toll roads be paid and returned to the several taxpayers who had paid the same; that defendant was among those to whom a portion of said fund was due; that, prior to the filing of said claim by the appellee, an effort was being made and arrangements being effected on the part of certain persons to have this fund…