Silver Creek Navigation & Improvement Co. v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad

Citations

• 90 Miss. 345
• 43 So. 478

Syllabus

<p>Navigable Waters. Obstructions. Equitable remedies. Pleadings.</p> <p>A bill in equity to compel the removal of obstructions to the navigation of a stream created by a railroad company is not demurrable if it show that complainant has a special statutory exclusive right for a term of years to navigate the stream and that the defendant has constructed railroad bridges across it in such a way as to needlessly obstruct navigation and had thereby interfered with complainant’s enjoyment of its exclusive right.</p>