Jones v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court at Eutaw. This was a bill in chancery, filed by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error, to enjoin them from keeping a ferry across Jhe Tombeckbee river.
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Error to the Chancery Court at Eutaw. This was a bill in chancery, filed by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error, to enjoin them from keeping a ferry across Jhe Tombeckbee river. The bill charges that, some four years since, the complainant obtained a license for a public ferry across the Tombeckbee river, at the town of War saw; and has, since that time, kept up the ferry by providing boats, &c; that during the last year, a ferry has been established at the same place by the defendant, about two hundred yards from his; and it is admitted, that they obtained from the…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
— The Court of Roads and Revenue of the county of Greene, granted to the plaintiffs in error the right to establish a ferry on the Tombeckbee river, opposite the town of Warsaw, in Sumter county, within about two hundred yards of a ferry, which had been previously established, of the defendant in error, some years before. The Chancellor decreed a .perpetual injunction of the use of the ferry last established, on the ground that the privilege given by statute, of establishing more ferries than one within a less distance than two miles of each other, where there was a town on a river, was a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State ex rel. Driver v. Commissioners of Roads & Revenue of TalladegaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1836
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