Larson v. State

By this action plaintiff seeks to recover from the state the sum of $44,000 damages by reason of the destruction of his ferry franchises on the Missouri river. The complaint alleges the granting to< plaintiff of a ferry franchise by the county commissioners of Wialworth county at a point on the easterly bank of said river near the city of Mobridge, and the granting to- him of a similar franchise opposite that point on the westerly bank of said river by the county commissioners of 'Corson county; that such franchises w-ere exclusive for the distance of two miles above and below said points;…