State v. Trustees of Vincennes University

In 1807, the Vincennes university was a legally existing corporate body, and was possessed of the lands constituting Gibson township in this state, under a grant from congress, and an act of the legislature of Indiana. So far, the Supreme Court of the United States, by the decision of a majority of its members, have determined in this case; and by that decision we are bound. The Trustees of the Vincennes University v. The State of Indiana, 14 Howard 268.

That township of land was designed to produce, by its sale, a fund for the support of said university. Subsequently the state assumed the…