Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — BRINGS SUIT TO TEST TAX LAW [ARTICLE]

BRINGS SUIT TO TEST TAX LAW

Is Filed In the Starke Circuit Court. The United States Railroad Administration, on the relation of the state and in behalf of the N. Y. C. & St. L.. (Nickel Plate) Railroad company, instituted a suit against County Treasurer John L. Kesler in the circuit coiirt Monday afternoon for the purpose of testing the law which gives him a 6 per cent penalty on taxes and to compel him to accept the company’s tender of tax money minus the 6 per cent. The action is a mandamus (proceeding and the outcome, in all probability, will be of vital interest to every county treasurer in the state. The complaint was filed by Judge Walter Olds of Fort Wayne and Attorney O. W. Nichols of this city, and the hearing has been set down for Monday, February 3. —Starke County Democrat.