Shepherd v. Third Municipality

The plaintiffs are appellants from a judgment which refuses them damages for an injury, which they contend they have sustained, in consequence of the Corporation having caused wharves and other works to be erected on the bank of the Mississippi, opposite to their lots, on which they had constructed, at great, expense, valuable saw mills, from which they derived *350great profit, by the erection of which works, they have been disabled from availing themselves of their mills, which they had put up with the consent and permission of the municipal authorities.

The mills having been built on lots of…