Sullivan v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lafayette County. . Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge. A commission appointed by the Board of Supervisors of Lafayette County, upon a petition of citizens of that county, to select a site for the erection of a free public bridge over the Tallahatchie River, selected a place where a public ferry was kept, known as Tobatubby’s Ferry, at which the river intersected a public highway.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lafayette County. . Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge. A commission appointed by the Board of Supervisors of Lafayette County, upon a petition of citizens of that county, to select a site for the erection of a free public bridge over the Tallahatchie River, selected a place where a public ferry was kept, known as Tobatubby’s Ferry, at which the river intersected a public highway. On the 8th of September, 1879, the board contracted for the erection of the bridge at the place selected, the work to be done by the 22d of December, 1879. On the 8th of October, 1879, H.…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooper, J.,
delivei'ed the opinion of the court.
At the beginning of this examination we are met by a question which it seems ought, in the natural course of events, long since to have obtruded itself upon the attention of the courts of this State, or of others having similar jurisdiction, and required solution ; and yet we have been able, after diligent research, to discover scarcely a trace of its consideration, and no single adjudication of it. The question is, what is a ferry, as regulated by our Code provisions ? Or, in other words, what is the extent and character of that right, exercised…
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