Trustees of the Wabash & Erie Canal Co. v. Beers
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court'of the United States for the District of Indiana.
The Government of the United States having granted to the State of Indiana certain lands to aid in the construction of a canal, designed to unite the waters of Lake Erie with those of the Wabash river, that State caused the route to be surveyed and located, and an estimate to be made of the cost of construction, which was calculated at the sum of $1,081,970.
On the'7th day of January, 1832, an act was passed, which approved and adopted this survey and estimate, established a Board of Canal…
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