59-19-11 - Use of landing; penalty for misuse. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 59-19-11. Use of landing; penalty for misuse.
 

After the termination of the proceedings and the payment or tender of the damages and costs, the applicants may erect warehouses, sheds, and such other buildings as may be necessary for the reception, storage, or shipment of cotton or other freight, and shall have such lot substantially inclosed, provided with suitable gates, and kept in good repair; and it shall not be lawful for any person to use the lot, shed, warehouses, or other buildings for any other purposes than those designated, under the penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered of the petitioners or of any person so using the said lot or buildings, by and for the use of the owner of the land, and the right to use the same for any purpose shall be forfeited. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 22, art. 4; 1871, § 1884; 1880, § 919; 1892, § 2492; 1906, § 2829; Hemingway's 1917, § 5223; 1930, § 5326; 1942, § 7629.