Appeal of Douglass

Citations

• 118 Pa. 65
• 12 A. 834
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 367

Syllabus

<p>1. The act of March 14, 1850, P. L. 202, granting an exclusive privilege of maintaining a ferry and authorizing the grantee to make good and convenient landings, does not impose the duty to acquire the landings in fee.</p> <p>2. Defendants in a bill filed to restrain interference with ferry rights granted under said act hare no standing to allege that the grantee has not complied with the terms of his grant.</p> <p>3. Where, under the grant in said act it is found as a fact that the grantee of the franchise for many years maintained only a skiff-crossing, but there was no public demand for other transportation, and no evidence of bad faith to the state or to the public, the grant is not affected by the provisions of § 1, article XVI., of the constitution.</p>