Norris v. Farmers' & Teamsters' Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, the owners of a regularly licensed bridge, held since 1850, across the American river, at about the termination of Eighteenth street, Sacramento City, (known as Lisle’s Bridge,) praying for an injunction, restraining the defendants from running a ferry within one mile of plaintiffs’ bridge, and for damages for having so run said ferry.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, the owners of a regularly licensed bridge, held since 1850, across the American river, at about the termination of Eighteenth street, Sacramento City, (known as Lisle’s Bridge,) praying for an injunction, restraining the defendants from running a ferry within one mile of plaintiffs’ bridge, and for damages for having so run said ferry. The complaint also avers a large expenditure upon the plaintiffs’ bridge, and a great diminution of travel, by reason of the establishment of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Heydenfeldt
Mr. Chief Justice Murray and Mr. Justice Terry concurred.
The judgment is affirmed upon the reasons given in the opinion of the Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, which is adopted as the opinion of this Court, and ordered to be reported accordingly.
[The following is the decision of the District Court below, referred to in the above, and adopted as the opinion and decision of the Supreme Court—thereby becoming part of the record.]
It appears that plaintiffs are the owners of the bridge crossing the American river, in this county, known as Lisle’s bridge; that the same has been kept as a…
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