Lonergan v. Mississippi River Bridge Co.

McCrary, G. J.,

{orally.) The plaintiff sues the defendant to recover damages for injury alleged to have been done to certain lands and to a certain ferry franchise by reason of the construction of a certain dike in the Mississippi river by defendant. By an act of congress approved March 3, 1871, the erection of a railway bridge across the Mississippi river at Louisiana, Missouri, was authorized, which bridge was to be built under and according to such regulations for the security of the navigation of the river as the secretary of war should prescribe. 16 St. at Large, 473. The secretary of…