Supreme Court of Arkansas May 15, 1884 (Wright v. Morris)

Eakin, J.

Appellants sued Morris in two counts. The first premising that the plaintiffs were the owners of a toll bridge over Yache Grasse Creek, duly authorized to take tolls, charged defendant with a disturbance of their franchise, in this; that he bad unlawfully and maliciously opened up, and kept open, over the lands of plaintiffs, divers roads and passages, leading to the bed of the creek