14 Ga. 1 | Ga. | 1853
By the Court
delivering the opinion.
We propose .to examine briefly, each of the grounds upon which the complainant in the bill, vests his right to relief.
We have looked closely through the bill, to see if there be any other allégation, upon which an equity would arise, to maintain this proceeding. It charges that during the • interval which elapsed between the destruction of the first bridge and the erection of the second, that the ferry was again brought into use, and that persons crossing at this place, were put over in this way. But it does not allege that the customers to Boyd’s mill, were ferried over toll-free, under the
So long as the first bridge stood, the contract was mutually beneficial; and notwithstanding it was in parol, it could have been enforced. But the destruction of the first bridge, without fault on the part of Boyd, placed the parties in statu quo, and there was neither part performance, or any thing else to give jurisdiction to a Court of Chancery.
We find it inadmissable, therefore, to maintain this bill in its present shape. Nor do we deem it advisable to do so, looking alone even to the interest of the complainant. The bill is not sufficiently full as to entitle him to sift the conscience of the defendant, so as to elicit the whole truth, touching this transaction.
Judgment affirmed.