Hoggard v. Mayor of Monroe

Citations

• 51 La. Ann. 683
• 44 L.R.A. 477
• 25 So. 349
• 1899 La. LEXIS 450

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Municipal corporations are not liable In damages for acts of their Common Councils, in respect to matters entirely outside of the powers of the corporation.</p> <p>2. The authority of towns situated on navigable streams to establish and operate public ferries rests entirely in Louisiana upon special grants to that effect, and the fact of the existence of such special grant must be averred, in a petition seeking to hold a municipal corporation liable for damages claimed to have occurred in the maintenance of a public ferry.</p>