Mills v. County of St. Clair
Illinois Supreme Court
Bill in Chancery for an injunction, &c., in the St. Clair Circuit Court, filed by the appellants against the appellees, and heard at the May term 1845, before the Hon. Walter B. Scates.
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Bill in Chancery for an injunction, &c., in the St. Clair Circuit Court, filed by the appellants against the appellees, and heard at the May term 1845, before the Hon. Walter B. Scates. The bill states, that the General Assembly of the State of Illinois passed an Act, whiph was approved on the 2d day of March, 1819, by which there was granted to Samuel Wiggins, his heirs and assigns, the franchise of establishing and maintaining a ferry across the Mississippi river, from land near the town of Illinois which might belong to him, which ferry was to be maintained with horse or steam boats, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The Opinion of the Court was delivered by
Purple, J.*
On the 8th day of March, A. D. 1845, the appellants, complainants in the Court below, filed their complaint against the appellees, the defendants, for a perpetual injunction against the defendants, enjoining them and all their confederates and agents from further maintaining and carrying on the ferry which they had established, or any ferry from the lands of the complainants, particularly described in their bill, and for such other and further relief as their case might require, and as to the Court might seem meet.
The complainants set forth,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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