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3 Cal. 236

Hanson v. Webb

California Supreme Court

Decided July 15, 1853

California Supreme Court · decided 1853-07-15

The complaint in this case stated that the plaintiffs were the owners of two ferries, regularly licensed, one by Sutter County Court of Sessions, and the other by Yuba County Court of Sessions, plying across Feather River, and that defendant ran a ferry from January to July, within a mile of plaintiffs’ ferries, and that without license had from any court, &c., to the damage of plaintiffs, $5000. The defendant demurred to the complaint.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1913

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Decided 1853-07-15

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Heydenfeldt, Justice,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court. Wells, Justice, concurred.

¶2The declaration in this case is too defective to sustain the judgment. It should have alleged that the defendant ran his ferry for fee or reward, or the promise or expectation of it, or that he ran it for other than his own personal use, or that of his family. Such are the only events in which the statute does not give to the owner of a licensed ferry protection against the infringement of his franchise.

¶3The general demurrer to the declaration was properly taken, and ought to have been sustained by the District Court.

¶4The judgment is reversed, and the case remanded.

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