Zanesville v. Zanesville Canal & Manufacturing Co.

OPINION

By CROSSLAND, J:—

We are taken back a century and a half for an insight into •and a consideration of-- pre-Zanesville and early Zanesville history in order to embrace the factors necessary to the determination of the issues of this action, assuming the authority to do so.

The original plat of what was created by the Ohio General Assembly as the “borough of Zanesville,” January 21, 1814, is dated of public record April 28, 1802, under the joint proprietorship of John Mclntire and Jonathan Zane, who caused lots 8 and 16 in Square 13 each to be marked “A” and contained thereon the…