Chiapella v. Brown

The plaintiff having purchased the right to keep a ferry across the Missississippi at the town of Plaquemine, for one year, brings the present suit against the defendant for a violation, of his franchise.

*190There was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.

Our attention is called to two hills of exception.

The plaintiff finding that the defendant (who had been a former lessee of the ferry,) was in the habit of accommodating numerous persons, by setting them over the Mississippi with his skiff, &c., engaged the witness to keep an account of the numbers crossing on…