Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — RULES FOR RELATOR BUDD. [ARTICLE]

RULES FOR RELATOR BUDD.

Judge Hanley Decides That Trustee Shall Maintain High School in I nion Tp. The case of the State of Indiana on relation of R. L. Budd, a citizen and taxpayer of jjpion tp., vs. George H. Hammerton, trustee, wherein tlje relator sought to mandate said trustee to erect and maintain a high school in said township as required by the Acts of 1913, came up before Judge Hanley Monday morning and the court held that the trustee should go ahead and secure site and erect building and maintain a high’ school? The relator was represented by attorney John A. Dunlap, while Trustee Hammerton, who opposed the law, was represented by attorneys W. L. Wood and George A,. Williams. An appeal will be taken by the trustee to the supreme court, in the hope that the next legislature will repeal the law or that a reversal may be had. In any event, it is argued by appellant, the matter can be staved off for at least a year by taking an appeal. The law makes it obligatory on a trustee to build and maintain a high school in a township having no other high school within three miles of its borders and having had a certain number of township graduates, as set out in the act. The Democrat has never thought very much of this law —which is alleged to have been put through by the state educational trust—but it is the law nevertheless, and Judge Hanley could not do otherwise than make the order that he dfd.~