Steinback v. State ex rel. Madison Township

The assignment of errors presents for our consideration and decision a large number of questions, .but there is one leading and important question, the decision of which will be decisive of the cause. We shall not consider, in their order, the various questions that have been argued with so much ability by the counsel engaged in the cause, but we shall only state so much of the pleadings and the facts as shall be necessary to present, in an intelligent manner, the controlling and decisive question in the cause.

*484William C. Steinback was duly elected, at the April election of 1867, trustee of…