State v. Digby

This was a proceeding under the" 17th section of the act to provide for a system of general improvement. The petitioner represented that he was the owner in fee-simple of certain fractional lots of ground lying in the town of Americus, in the county of Tippecanoe; that his title thereto was derived from the state, &c.; “ that the state of Indiana, in extending the Wabash and Erie canal along the margin of the Wabash river at said town of Americus, cut the same entirely through said fractional lots in said town, Whereby the said lots were wholly appropriated to the use of the state, and wholly…