Trustees of the Wabash & Erie Canal v. State

Bill in chancery to enforce the specific performance of an act supposed to be enjoined by statute. The bill was filed by the state against the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal. An answer was filed; deposi-. tions were taken; the cause was submitted; and a decree for a specific performance was rendered.

The facts necessary to an understanding of the case, are few, and follow.

On the 19th of January, 1846, an act was passed by the legislature of this state, transferring to trustees, for the benefit of the creditors of the state, the Wabash omd Erie Canal. The act contains a great many…