Case Name: Shallcross and Others v. The City of Jeffersonville
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1866-05
Citations: 26 Ind. 193
Docket Number: 
Parties: Shallcross and Others v. The City of Jeffersonville.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 193–194

Head Matter:
Shallcross and Others v. The City of Jeffersonville.
Cities.—Ferries.—Tlie general law for the incorporation of cities does not authorize the common council to require the owner or keeper of a ferry within the city limits to take out a license from the city authorities.
APPEAL from the Clarke Circuit Court.

Opinion:
Elliott, J.
The appellants were prosecuted in the may- or's court of the city of Jeffersonville for keeping a ferry and ferry boat on the Ohio river, and ferrying persons across said river for pay, from a point within the corporate limits of the city, without having first procured a license therefor from the common council of said city
Judgment was rendered against the appellants, and they appealed to the Circuit Court. In the latter court, judg ment was again rendered against them, for $20 and costs, to which they excepted, and appeal to this court.
It. Crawford, for appellant.
T. L. Smith, M. C. Kerr and C. L. Dunham, for appellee.
The case comes directly within the decision of this court in the. case of Duckwall et al. v. The City of New Albany, 25 Ind. 283, in which it was held that the act for the incorporation of cities did not authorize them to require the owners and keepers of ferries within the city limits to procure a license from the city authorities. The judgment must therefore be reversed.
The judgment is reversed,, with costs.