Cage v. Trager
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the decision of Hon. H. S. YaN EatoN, Chancellor of the Tenth Judicial District, sitting, in vacation, at-Woodville, in Wilkinson County.
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Appeal from the decision of Hon. H. S. YaN EatoN, Chancellor of the Tenth Judicial District, sitting, in vacation, at-Woodville, in Wilkinson County. Under an act of the Legislature, approved January 30,. 1882, entitled “An act providing for the establishment of a. public landing on the bank of the Mississippi River, in the county of Wilkinson, and for other purposes,” the Board of Supervisors of that county, upon the petition of J. D. Cage and others, citizens of the county, had caused a certain lot of ground belonging to Louis Trager to be laid off and marked for a public landing on the…
1Opinion of the Court
ChaIíMers, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a proceeding to establish a public landing on the Mississippi Biver at Fort Adams, in Wilkinson County, under authority of a special act of the Legislature for that purpose. Acts 1882, p. 273.
The constitutionality of the act which, in most of its requirements, is a reproduction of the general act in the Code of 1871 for the establishment of public landings, is attacked on several grounds, the principal one being that it does not compel those seeking the condemnation of private property themselves to institute and carry through…
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