In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in and for the Eastern District : sitting in equity : between the City of Philadelphia, plaintiffs, and Samuel Field, John H. Holmes, A.J. Drexel, Clarence H. Clark, John Welsh, Adolph E, Borie, John K. Findlay, Henry M. Phillips, Moses A. Dropsie, William B. Mann, John L. Dawson, John W. Leigh, William Perry, Matthew McCaw, John Kater, James Smyth, Q.O. Brown, William J. Pollock, Charles E. Lex, Andrew M. Eastwick, Morton McMichael, Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, Joshua Spering, President of the Select Council of the city of Philadelphia, Joseph F. Marcer, President of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, Charles A. Miller, John Price Wetherill, John Baird, William Struthers, Thomas S. Ellis, Charles M.S. Leslie and Jeremiah Nichols, acting as and claiming to be commissioners to build a bridge across the Schuylkill River, in the city of Philadelphia, at South Street, defendants.