Browning v. Board of Commissioners

The appellant sued the appellee, and in his complaint alleges that he is the owner of a public ferry established by due process of law, across White River, at the town of Gosport, which stream is the boundary between the counties of Owen and Monroe; that he is also the owner of the landing of said ferry on both sides of the river and of the land adjoining the landing of the ferry in Monroe county; that the appellee, by an order duly passed, ordered and directed the erection of a bridge across the river at Gosport, and in pursuance of the order proceeded to locate, and is engaged in erecting,…