Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Smith
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Lake Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtOlds, J.
The appellant, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, brought this suit against one John P. Merrill, as treasurer of Lake county, Indiana, to restrain the collection of a tax in aid of the construction of a railroad.
The appellee, Charles C. Smith, successor in office of Merrill, was afterwards, by order of the court, substituted as defendant.
It appears from" the record that twenty-five freeholders of Hobart township, in Lake county, presented to the board of commissioners of said county, on the 19th day of April, 1881, *514their petition asking that an appropriation of ten thousand…
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