Miles v. Craig

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Preston, J.

The plaintiff was the lessee of the police jury of the parish of Bossier, of a ferry across Benoist’s Bayou, on the road from Shreveport to Arkansas. The ordinance of the police jury prohibited any person from keeping a ferry within a mile of the established ferry, under a penalty of fifty dollars per day, for the benefit of the lessee.

The plaintiff alleged and proved, that the defendant kept a free ferry for a length of time before the institution of his suit, within less than a mile of the ferry leasedtohim. Pie claims a large amount of…