City of Venice v. Madison County Ferry Co.

A bill in chancery was filed by the appellant city against the appellee ferry company, and the same was afterwards consolidated with a bill in chancery subsequently filed by the appellee ferry company against the appellant city and D. R. Francis, Jr., for partition of certain lands. A decree was rendered in the consolidated cause, from which the appellant city has prosecuted this appeal, all other parties to the two causes being satisfied with the decree as rendered.

The controversy brought into this court by the appeal relates to the ownership of certain territory which, as platted in the…