Case Name: Sims v. The Board of Commissioners of Monroe County
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1872-05
Citations: 39 Ind. 40
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sims v. The Board of Commissioners of Monroe County.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 39
Pages: 40–49

Head Matter:
Sims v. The Board of Commissioners of Monroe County.
Board of County Commissioners.—Aid to Soldiers’ Families.—Appeal.—A., in March, 1869, filed her petition before the Board of Commissioners of Monroe County, alleging that she was the widow of a soldier who had served in the anny of the United States from. August, 1862, until the 26th day of June, 1865, when he was honorably discharged by reason of disability contracted in the service; that while in the service, he had a wife, the petitioner, and three children under twelve years of age; and that she was entitled to have and receive twelve month’s pay at the rate of fourteen dollars per month, out of the fund collected in said county on the levy made under the act of March 4th, 1865, for the relief of families of soldiers, seamen, etc. The board of commissioners disallowed the claim, and the petitioner appealed to the 'court of common pleas, and by that court the appeal was dismissed.
Held, that as the later act of December 20th, 1865, in terms repealed the act of March 4th, 1865, and provided further, that all disbursements of the funds raised under the act repealed should ’cease on and after the 3d day of March, 1866, and as the claim of the petitioner was one to obtain a sum. claimed to be due under the act of March, 1865, as modified by that of December, 1865, and as the claim was not made until long after the 3d of March, 1866, when disbursements were to cease, it was wholly within the discretion of the board of commissioners to allow it or not, and no appeal lay to any other court from the -action of the board.
SAME.—Case Overruled.—Under the provisions 'of said act of December, 1865, none of the persons enumerated in the repealed act can claim, as a matter of right, any portion of the fund, since the 3d day of March, 1S66. Board of Commissioners of Clinton County v. McDowell, 30 Ind. 87, overruled.
Appeal.—Board of Commissioners.—There is no statute which authorizes an appeal from the action of the board of commissioners upon a matter involving no question of legal right, but simply a matter for the exercise of the discretion of the board.
APPEAL from the Monroe Common Pleas.

Opinion:
Worden, J.
This cause was once decided, but a rehearing was granted. The cause has been again submitted. After again considering the question involved, we are of opinion that the judgment below should be affirmed for the reasons stated in the opinion granting the rehearing, which is adopted as the opinion in the cause.
The judgment below .is affirmed, with costs.
Busicirk, C. J., having been of counsel, was absent.