Werling v. Ingersoll

Citations

• 181 U.S. 131
• 21 S. Ct. 570
• 45 L. Ed. 782
• 1901 U.S. LEXIS 1349

Syllabus

<p>When Congress, under the act of March 2, 1827, granted to the State of Illinois' alternate sections of land throughout the whole length of the public domain, in aid of the construction of a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois River with those of Lake Michigan, it also granted by implication the right of way through reserved sections; but this implication would not extend to ninety feet on each side.</p> <p>The State of Illinois never took title to a strip of land ninety feet wide on each side of the route of that canal through the public lands, so far as related to the sections reserved to the United States by the act of March 2, 1827.</p> <p>'The State, in constructing the canal, proceeded under that act, filed its map thereunder, and constructed the canal with reference thereto.</p>