Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — TO TEST TAX BOARD POWERS [ARTICLE]

TO TEST TAX BOARD POWERS

Columbus Suit Based on Ruling Against Bond Issue. Columbus, Oct. 24. —A temporary restraining order against the Bartholomew county commissioners and the county treasurer, to prevent them from selling the issue of |70,000 in bonds to build the Nentrup road in this city, was granted Tuesday by Judge John W. Donaker, who set Nov. 14 as the date for a hearing on an application for a permanent injunction. The suit was filed by Albert C. White, a taxpayer, to test the constitutionality of that part of the tax law which empowers the state tax board to pass on public Improvement bonds. The state board- recently refused authority for the sale of the Nentrup road bonds, but the commissioners advertised them for sale Oct. 28. Regardless of the decision of the court on the petition for a permanent restraining order, the case will be appealed to. the supreme court of Indiana. -