Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case is brought here by writ of error to the Supreme Court of Illinois under the twenty-fifth section of the act of 1789.
It appears that the legislature of Illinois, by a law passed March 2, 1819, granted to a certain S. Wiggins, his heirs and assigns, the right to establish a ferry, upon his own lands, across the Mississippi, near the town of Illinois.
By a subsequent act of March 2...
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