Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS DF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towne—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesDEMURRER WAS OVERRULED Township Trustee Ordered to Haul All Pupils to School. Wabash, Oct. 23. —Judge Hunter of the circuit court here Monday overruled a demurrer to the complaint of the state on relation John D. Miley and others against Frank Truss, trustee of Waltz toVnship, an< ordered the trustee to haul all high school pupils in Waltz township to school. The suit to the outcome of a mandate issue by the court some time ago in which *the trustee was ordered to carry the high school pupils. The trustee refused, saytog that the state board of accounts would not favorably pass his bills for the carrying of pupils. Mr. Truss contended that the mandate would not overrule the opinion of the attorney-general who said high school pupils could not be carried by township trustees in Indiana. Both the attorneys for the plaintiffs and the defendant would like to see the case go to the supreme court though for final decision, as the ruling affects every trustee in the state. All of the other township trustees here have been carrying high school pupils as they have not been placed to any extra expense by doing so.