Tri-State Ferry Company v. Birney

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

In April, 1924, the county court of Ballard county, in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes governing the establishment and regulations of ferries, Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, 1930 Edition, secs. 1800 to 1821, inclusive, granted to the appellee, R. I. Birney, a franchise to operate a ferry across the Ohio river between East Cairo, Ky., and Cairo, Ill. In the summer of 1928, the appellant, Tri-State Ferry Company, which was operating a ferry between Cairo, Ill., and Wiekliffe, Ky., a town situated on the east bank of the Mississippi…