Pascagoula Boom Co. v. Dixon
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom tbe chancery court .of Greene county. Hon. Nathan 0. Hile, Chancellor. Tbe Pascagoula Boom Company, a duly authorized common carrier of logs down tbe Pascagoula river, and others, were the complainants in the court below. Dixon, and others, who maintained the boom, objected to, were defendants there. The decree of the court below from which the complainants appealed to tbe supreme court, was only in part in their favor.
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Prom tbe chancery court .of Greene county. Hon. Nathan 0. Hile, Chancellor. Tbe Pascagoula Boom Company, a duly authorized common carrier of logs down tbe Pascagoula river, and others, were the complainants in the court below. Dixon, and others, who maintained the boom, objected to, were defendants there. The decree of the court below from which the complainants appealed to tbe supreme court, was only in part in their favor. It enjoined defendants from consuming the logs of tbe complainants, but denied all other relief. The facts are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion of tbe court, but at tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtTeRR.au, J.
The appellants, complainants below, sought a mandatory injunction against the defendants for the removal of a boom placed by them in the Pascagoula river, as a public nuisance, causing them special damage. This river is alleged in the bill and admitted in the answer to be a navigable stream for logs, rafts and boats; and it is admitted that for the purpose of improving the navigation the national government makes an annual appropriation.
At the point on the river v'here the obstruction complained of is located, the defendants, J. I. Dixon & Co., are the owners of the eastern bank of the river,…
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