Case Name: Thomas Berry, Petitioner for a Ferry from Alexandria, Hunting Creek Warehouse, to Addison's in Maryland
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1810-11
Citations: 2 Cranch 13
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thomas Berry, Petitioner for a Ferry from Alexandria, Hunting Creek Warehouse, to Addison’s in Maryland.
Judges: (Thruston, J., absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 13–13

Head Matter:
Thomas Berry, Petitioner for a Ferry from Alexandria, Hunting Creek Warehouse, to Addison’s in Maryland.
This Court sitting in Alexandria, has only the powers of a County Court of Virginia in relation to ferries.
The petitioner had a right to keep a ferry from Addison’s in Maryland to Alexandria. See the Act of Virginia of 26th December, 1792, § 11, p. 227, and [2 Stat. at Large, 115.]

Opinion:
The Court
(Thruston, J., absent,)
refused.
1. Because they had no right to appropriate a public landing to the purposes of a ferry.
2. Because the old ferry from Hunting Creek to Addison's having been disused for more than two years and six months, had been discontinued under the Act of Virginia, and the Court had no right to grant a new ferry ; having only the powers of a County Court of Virginia in this respect.