Scranton-Pascagoula Realty Co. v. City of Pascagoula

Communy avenue in the city of Pascagoula is an undeveloped street fifty feet wide and several thousand feet in length. Its western terminus is at Bayou Pichot, and running thence eastwardly, it crosses Bayou Yazoo at a distance of about one thousand feet from Bayou Pichot, Between these bayous the land rises into a ridge, so that about midway the elevation is some twelve feet above mean gulf level.

Bayou Pichot, at the point where the said street approaches, is of sufficient size and depth to furnish a harbor for large vessels, and it is only about one thousand feet from this point to where…