Bowman v. Wathen
District Court, D. Indiana
[In equity. Bill by Isaac S. Bowman, George W. S. Bowman,-Brinker, Mary Brinker, Itebecea Bowman, and Albert T. Burnley, against Athanasius Wathen and the mayor and common council of the city of Jeffersonville, to enjoin the use of a ferry, and for an accounting.
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF
THE COURT.
The complainants claim a ferry right from Jefferson-ville, in Indiana, across the Ohio river to Louisville, in Kentucky, which is in the possession and enjoyment of the defendant, Wathen, who claims one half of it, and which the complainants pray, in pursuance of their right, may be decreed to them. The complainants, except Burnley, claim as devi-sees of Isaac S. Bowman, and he claims as their assignee. Bowman was attached to the regiment commanded by George Rogers Clark, and to whom the state of Virginia granted one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, lying…
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