East Cairo Ferry Company v. Brown

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

The East Cairo Ferry Company was incorporated and began business in September, 1929. It operates a ferry across the Mississippi river between Cairo, Ill., and East Cairo, Ky. Several miles south of East Cairo on the Mississippi is Filmore. Several miles below Filmore is Wicldiffe, Kentucky. At least 90 per cent, of the ferry company’s business comes to it from Wicldiffe, over a road leading down the river from East Cairo to Filmore and from there to Wickliffe. On November 26, 1929, it brought this action against appellee, J. F. Brown, to…