New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railway Co. v. Mississippi Ex Rel. District Attorney

Citations

• 112 U.S. 12
• 5 S. Ct. 19
• 28 L. Ed. 619
• 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1847

Syllabus

<p>The act of February -7th, 1867, of the Legislature of Mississippi (Laws of 1867, 332), and the act of August 19th, 1868, of the Legislature of Louisiana (Acts of La. 1868, No. 28, p. 32), and the act of Congress of March 2d, 1868.(15 Stat. 38), relating to the construction and maintaining of bridges over navigable waters on the route of a railroad between Mobile and New Orleans, when taken together so far as the last two may be considered in this, case, do not release the plaintiff in error from the obligation imposed upon it by the said act of the Legislature of Mississippi to maintain a drawbridge with a space of sixty feet for the passage of vessels, across the channel of Pearl River, in its main channel, constituting the dividing line between Mississippi and Louisiana.</p>