Packet Co. v. Catlettsburg
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from.tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky.' The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This was a suit in chancery brought by the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy, and Pomeroy Packet Compahy against the Board of Trustees of the Town of • Catlettsburg. ’; The bill is. very inartificially drawn, and its .allegations very imperfectly present some of tbe.questions which, by the brief of counsel, it is supposed' to have raised. It alleges the complainant to -be a corporation, owning a large number of steamboats engaged in the navigation of the Ohio River, and making frequent landings at the'-public wharf of the town of Catlettsburg, on thé Kentucky side of that river. That upon…
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