President of the Indianapolis & Bellefontaine Railroad v. City of Indianapolis

The case made by the record is substantially as follows: An act entitled “ An act appointing commissioners to lay off a town on the site selected for a permanent seat of government,” approved January 6, 1821, directed the commissioners to appoint a surveyor, who, after laying off the town, should make out two complete copies of the plan of said town on parchment or paper, designating, inter alia, the contents of each square that may be noted on the plan thereof as public ground, and for what intended, whether for civil or religious purposes. Acts of 1821, p. 44, § 4. Under this act, the town…