Carroll v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Fox, Judge. (1) The state of Missouri by an act, approved March 29, 1872, article 3, sections 39 and 45, delegated to the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, “the exclusive power and right to regulate, tax and license all ferries within the limits of the city,” and to “ exercise complete and perfect control over * * * the trade, commerce, etc., as the city may deem expedient.”
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Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Fox, Judge. (1) The state of Missouri by an act, approved March 29, 1872, article 3, sections 39 and 45, delegated to the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, “the exclusive power and right to regulate, tax and license all ferries within the limits of the city,” and to “ exercise complete and perfect control over * * * the trade, commerce, etc., as the city may deem expedient.” Acts, 1872, p. 328. This suit is bottomed upon the decision of this court in Challis n. Danis, 56 Mo. 25. And the granting of exclusive ferry franchises has long been the…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
Richard Carroll, in May, 1886, presented to the judge of the circuit court of Cape Girardeau.county, at chambers and in vacation, a petition in which lie alleged that he had been granted, by ordinance of the city council of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, an exclusive right to run and operate ferry boats over- and across the Mississippi river within the jurisdictional limits of the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and a strip of land on the Illinois .shore opposite said city, for a term of ten years from September 14, 1885, for the purpose of transporting persons and property across the…
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