Cash v. Auditor of Clark County

Suit by the auditor of Clark county against Cash, to recover a penalty alleged to have been incurred by the latter in violating the provisions of an act regulating the licensing of pilots at the falls of the Ohio river.

The suit was commenced before a justice of the peace. In the Common Pleas it was submitted upon the following agreed case:

“Defendant [Cash] is, and has been for several years past, a citizen of the state of Indiana, and was a duly appointed pilot, at the falls of the Ohio river, under the acts of the general assembly of said state passed prior to the 15th day of June, 1852. On…