Campbell v. Brackenridge

This case was commenced in the Allen Circuit Court, from whence it was certified here in consequence of the president judge of that Court having been engaged as counsel for one of the parties. It stands, therefore, as an original case, and has been submitted upon bills, answers, replications,' and depositions. The facts established, so far as they are necessary to be stated, are substantially as follows:

In the year 1830, the congress of the United States passed an act authorizing the associate judges of the county of Allen to enter, for the use and benefit of said county, so much of the…