Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — UPHOLDS COUNTY UNIT LAW [ARTICLE]

UPHOLDS COUNTY UNIT LAW

Judge Pence of Madison Circuit Court Rules on Measure. Anderson, Dec. 16. —Constitutionality of the county unit road law, enacted by the last Indiana legislature, was upheld in a ruling made by Judge fence in the Madison circuit court here yesterday. The decision Is - the first made on the new law, although a similar suit is pending in the St. Joseph, county court at South Bend. Tbe, Madison county case will be appealed to the state supreme court The suit, which Is directed sytnyt the board* of county commissloners, was brought by George C. Forrey, an Indianapolis bond buyer, to enjoin the construction of what Is known as the Carr concrete woad, । a six-mile stretch of paved highway that Is designed to eon-' neat Anderson with Marion in Grant county. ' - In the complaint for Injunction, the constitutionality of the law was attacked. The board ot county commissioners filed a demurrer to the complaint and the court in ruling today sustained the demurrer. Attorneys for Mr. Forrey refused to plead further and permitted judgment to go against the plaintiffs for court costs. They Immrtilately announced they would appeal.