Snidow v. Board of Supervisors
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Giles county. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs assign error.
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:
The assignments of error raise the questions which will be considered and disposed of in their order as stated below.
1. It is settled by the authorities that the ferry of the appellants is a private property right—an incorporeal hereditament—acquired from the Commonwealth, granted by legislative authority exercised by the circuit court per its order of June 21, 1892, above referred to, which granted to appellants the franchise for such ferry. Patrick v. Ruffin, 2 Rob. (41 Va.) 209, 40 Am. Dec. 740;…
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