Williams v. Wingo
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. By the statutes of Yirginia authority was given to the county courts of the several counties to license ferries.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. By the statutes of Yirginia authority was given to the county courts of the several counties to license ferries. By an act passed March 5, 1840, (Acts Assembly, 1839-1840, p. 58, c. 72,) carried, with simply verbal changes, into chap. 64 of the Code of Virginia of 1873 as sec. 23, and subsequently into chap. 62 of the Code of 1887 as sec. 1386, it was provided: “ Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall not be lawful for the court of any county to grant leave to establish a ferry over any watercourse within one half…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The contention of the plaintiff in error is that, under the laws of the State of Virginia in force at the time of such action, the license granted by the county court to him'to establish a ferry created a contract between him and the State to the effect that no other ferry should be established within half a mile; and that the act of 1894 and the shbsequent proceedings of the county court of Giles County impaired the obligation of that contract, and, therefore, were repugnant to section 10 of article 1 of the Constitution of the United- States.
This is an obvious error. The act of 1840 was one…
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