Burnet v. Trustees of the Wabash & Erie Canal

Complaint by the appellant against the appellees, alleging that the defendants under and by virtue of a deed 05 patent, dated July 31st, 1847, made to' them by the Governor of the State of Indiana, as provided by the act entitled, “ an act to provide for the funded debt of the State *252of Indiana, and for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal to Evansville,” approved January 19th, 1846, and the act supplemental thereto, approved January 27th, 1847, by which said trustees are created a corporation, became the owners in feesimple and possessed, as therein provided, among other, of certain…