State v. Beackmo

This was a proceeding originally instituted under the 17th section of the act providing for a general system of internal improvement, approved January 37, 1836, before the board of commissioners having the superintendence of the public works of Indiana, to recover damages for injury done to real estate by the construction through it of the Wabash and Erie canal. An appeal was taken from the award of damages by the arbitrators to the Circuit Court. The claimant there obtained a verdict for a fraction over 700 dollars, and a judgment, payable in canal-scrip, upon the verdict.

Several errors are…