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MILLS ET AL. v. ST. CLAIR COUNTY ET AL.

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49 U.S. 569 (1850)

8 How. 569

12 L.Ed. 1201

ADAM L. MILLS, JOHN H. GAY, CHARLES MULLIKIN, JOHN O'FALLON, WILLIAM C. WIGGINS, ANDREW CHRISTY, ELIZABETH CHRISTY, MARY F. CHRISTY, MELANIE CHRISTY, WHICH MELANIE IS THE WIDOW, AND WHICH SAID ELIZABETH CHRISTY AND MARY F. CHRISTY ARE THE ONLY CHILDREN AND HEIRS AT LAW OF SAMUEL C. CHRISTY, DECEASED, — SAID CHILDREN BEING INFANTS, AND APPEARING BY SAID MELANIE, THEIR NEXT FRIEND, — EMILY PRATTE, WIDOW OF BERNARD PRATTE, LEWIS PENGUET AND THERESE, HIS WIFE, STEPHEN F. NIEDLET AND CELESTE, HIS WIFE, LOUIS V. BOGY AND PELAGIE, HIS WIFE, JOSEPH BLAINE AND AIMI, HIS WIFE, WHICH SAID EMILY PRATTE, BERNARD PRATTE, THERESE PENGUET, CELESTE NIEDLET, PELAGIE BOGY, AND AIMI DIANE BLAINE, ARE CHILDREN AND ONLY HEIRS AT LAW OF BERNARD PRATTE, DECEASED, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THE COUNTY OF ST. CLAIR AND JAMES HARRISON.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 21, 1850.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Gamble and Mr. Webster, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Breeze, for the defendants.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

By an act of March 2d, 1839, the Legislature of Illinois appointed five commissioners to locate a road and ferry-landing, three hundred feet wide, on the east bank of the River Mississippi, opposite to the city of St. Louis; the road to extend back to Cahokia Creek. The road and landing were accordingly located; the distance from the river to the creek being about sixty...

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