Meyler v. Wedding

DIS'SENTING OPINION BY

JUDGE HOBSON.

The question involved in this case is whether the process from the courts of Indiana may lawfully be served by her officers on the Ohio river.

In January, 1781, Virginia, by an act of her Legislature, ceded to the United States all right she had to the territory “northwest of the river Ohio.” In December, 1789, another act, now known as the Oompact with Virginia, wa,s passed, under which the territory then styled the District of Kentucky, was permitted under certain conditions to be formed into- an independent State. Under these acts the boundary line between…