Legal Opinion
Butler v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided May 29, 1855PublishedCited by 13 opinions
APPEAL from the Greene Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtStuart, J.
Indictment for a nuisance in erecting a feeder-dam, &c. The dam erected was part of the Wabash and Erie Camal, and the persons here indicted are the trustees, &c., of that work. Trial by the Court, on an agreed state of facts. Finding and judgment for the state. The evidence agreed upon is all in the record.
The trustees claim the right of erecting the dam, under the authority of a law of the state, entitled “ an act to provide for the funded debt of the state of Indiana, and for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal to Evamsville” Gen. Laws, 1846, p. 1.
The 23d section of that act…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of the Warren BridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1837
- State Ex Rel. Washington County v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1845
- Lang v. ScottIndiana Supreme Court · 1825
3Cited by13 opinions
- Storms v. StevensIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- State, Ex Rel. Gary Taxpayers' Ass'n v. Lake Superior CourtIndiana Supreme Court · 1947
- Grimes v. Central Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1916
- Neaderhouser v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1867
- Couchman v. PratherIndiana Supreme Court · 1904
8 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.