Railroad Company v. Hanning
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being j:his: The New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Company — the station-house grounds of whose road in New Orleans came down in one part of the city to the batture of the Mississippi — obtained conveyances of the batture property in front, the same being accurately described by maps annexed to them, and were desirous of building in front of their batture a wharf on the river, and also of…
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being j:his: The New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Company — the station-house grounds of whose road in New Orleans came down in one part of the city to the batture of the Mississippi — obtained conveyances of the batture property in front, the same being accurately described by maps annexed to them, and were desirous of building in front of their batture a wharf on the river, and also of repairing an old wharf there. With a view of enabling them to do this, the General Assembly of Louisiana, by a joint resolution…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
The first objection presented by the defendant below is, that the wharf in question was not a public wharf; that the plaintiff' came upon the same without business, invitation, or inducement; that he was a trespasser, and if he suffered injury it was in consequence of his own wrong.
We are not furnished with the evidence necessary for the decision of this question. The record does uot state whether this was the wharf of an active steamboat company, where all travellers were permitted and substantially invited to come and go; whether the plaintiff' was there upon the special invitation of some…
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