Indianapolis & Cincinnati Railroad v. State ex rel. City of Lawrenceburg

This was a complaint and motion, in the name of the State, on the relation of the city of Lawrence-burg, against the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad Company, for a writ of mandate.

It is alleged by the relatrix, in her complaint and motion, *490that in the year 1854, etc., the said railroad company, formerly named and styled “ The Lawrenceburg and Upper Mississippi Railroad Company,” built and constructed in and through the city of Lawrenceburg, aforesaid, and in, upon, and across certain public streets and alleys in said city, then, and for more than twenty years previous thereto,…