McInnis v. Pace
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court, second district, of Perry county. Hon. Nathan C. Hill, Chancellor. The word ‘ ‘ license, ’ ’ used in the statute, implies a right, a privilege, exceptional and exclusive to its possessor — a privilege guarded and protected by law.
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From the chancery court, second district, of Perry county. Hon. Nathan C. Hill, Chancellor. The word ‘ ‘ license, ’ ’ used in the statute, implies a right, a privilege, exceptional and exclusive to its possessor — a privilege guarded and protected by law. We admit that the board may confer the license whenever and upon whomsoever it will, to the extent required by public good; it may establish a ferry, or more than one, for each highway, if public necessity demands; and might have licensed another to be operated right by the side of appellant’s, if it deemed proper, giving him no cause for…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
The free bridge over Leaf river, on the Augusta and Hattiesburg public road, became impassable in the spring of 1900 by injuries suffered from high water, when the board of supervisors, in order to provide a crossing over the river until the bridge could be repaired, established a ferry in lieu of said bridge, and authorized its operation by the plaintiff below, the appellant here.
The license to operate the ferry was granted April 30, 1900, and was to continue for five months only. The appellant provided himself with a fiatboat and the necessary and usual equipments of a ferry, at some…
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