Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1876 (Mayor of Mobile v. Baldwin)

BRICKELL, C. J.

These cases involve kindred questions, and have been considered together. The facts of the first case, are, that the appellee, Baldwin, owning a steamboat, the “ Anne,” which is registered in the custom-house in the city of Mobile, (the county of Baldwin being in that collection district), and is employed as a ferry-boat, daily plying from the eastern shore of Mobile bay to the