Adam S. Mills and Others, in Error v. William G. Brown and Others, and the County of St. Clair, in Error
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Supreme Court of the state-of Illinois. The plaintiffs in error instituted a suit in the Circuit .Court of the state of Illinois, claiming, by a bill filed in that Court to hold under an act of the legislature of Illinois, an exclusive right to erect a ferry on the Mississippi river, from lapd owned by them, to the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
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IN error to the Supreme Court of the state-of Illinois. The plaintiffs in error instituted a suit in the Circuit .Court of the state of Illinois, claiming, by a bill filed in that Court to hold under an act of the legislature of Illinois, an exclusive right to erect a ferry on the Mississippi river, from lapd owned by them, to the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The defendants in the suit denied the right thus set up, and claimed the right to set up another' ferry, from Illinois to St. Louis, under other acts of the legislature of Illinois. The case was, after a decree of the Circuit Court in…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This case is brought here by writ of error to the Supreme Court of Illinois under the twenty-fifth section of the act of 1789.
It appears that the legislature of Illinois,, by' a law passed March 2, 1819, granted to a certain S. Wiggins, his heirs and assigns, the right to establish a ferry, upon his own lands, across the Mississippi, near the town of Illinois.
By a subsequent act of March 2, 1839, the legislature of lilinois granted to the county of St. Clair, in that.state, and to certain commissioners in behalf of the county, the right to locate a road and ferry landing between Cahokie creek…
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