Bell v. State ex rel. Summers

Coffey, C. J. —

This action was brought in the Huntington Circuit Court, by the appellee against the appellant, to test the right of the latter to hold the office of county commissioner from the second district in said county. The court overruled a demurrer to the information in the cause,, and, the appellant refusing to plead further, the appellee had judgment.

The material facts in the case, as they appear in the information are, substantially, that prior to 1834, the county of Huntington embraced the territory now included in the counties of Wabash and Whitley. While it embraced this…