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COVINGTON DRAWBRIDGE COMPANY ET AL. v. SHEPHERD ET AL.

62 U.S. 112 (1858)

21 How. 112

THE COVINGTON DRAWBRIDGE COMPANY AND RICHARD M. NEBEKER, APPELLANTS, v. ALEXANDER O. SHEPHERD AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on printed arguments by Mr. O.H. Smith for the appellants, and Mr. Thompson for the appellees.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

In December, 1854, Shepherd and others recovered a judgment against the Covington Drawbridge Company, for upwards of six thousand dollars. At the same time, Davidson recovered a judgment against the same company for upwards of a thousand dollars.

The corporation was created by an act of the Legislature of Indiana, and built a drawbridge over the Wabash river, in...

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