Sullivan v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lafayette County. Hon. W. S. Featherston, Judge. This case was before this court at a former term and will be found reported in 58 Miss. 790. The facts presented by the record now are substantially the same as on the former trial.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lafayette County. Hon. W. S. Featherston, Judge. This case was before this court at a former term and will be found reported in 58 Miss. 790. The facts presented by the record now are substantially the same as on the former trial. A commission appointed by the Board of Supervisors of Lafayette County, upon a petition of citizens of that county, to select a site for the erection of a free public bridge over the Tallahatchie Liver, selected a place where a public ferry was kept, known as Toby-Tuby Ferry, at which the river intersected a public highway. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
When this case was heretofore in this court we decided that no ownership of a public ferry could exist in this State save by legislative grant, and that in this particular case the appellant was by his conduct estopped to claim ownership of the free bridge erected on his land. Of the correctness of the conclusions reached, both as *281to the question of fact and of law, we remain entirely satisfied, nor was any substantial change in the aspect of the question of fact made by the newly offered testimony upon the subsequent trial in the court below. After the case was remanded to the lower court, a…
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