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MAYOR OF VIDALIA v. McNEELY

Nos. 140, 163.

274 U.S. 676 (1927)

MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF VIDALIA v. McNEELY, ADMINISTRATRIX. McNEELY, ADMINISTRATRIX, v. MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF VIDALIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 6, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Hugh Tullis and L.T. Kennedy, with whom Messrs. E.H. Ratcliff and W.H. Watkins were on the briefs, for McNeely, Administratrix.

Mr. G.P. Bullis for the Town of Vidalia.

Messrs. John Brunini, James H. Price, and Luther A. Whittington filed a brief as amici curiae, by special leave of Court.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit to restrain the town of Vidalia, Louisiana, from unwarrantably interfering with the operation by the complainant of a public ferry from that town across the Mississippi River to Natchez, Mississippi. On a preliminary hearing the District Court awarded the complainant a temporary injunction, 6 Fed. (2d) 19. In the answer the defendant insisted that the complainant was without a license from...

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