54-13-311 - Detention at ferry or bridge penalized. - Tennessee Statutes

54-13-311. Detention at ferry or bridge penalized.

Any person detained at a public ferry or toll bridge for want of sufficient boats or other proper craft, and hands, or by the keeper's neglect of duty, may recover, before a judge of the court of general sessions, the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) from the owner of the ferry or bridge.

[Code 1858, § 1250 (deriv. Acts 1804, ch. 1, § 15); Shan., § 1705; Code 1932, § 3014; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-1721.]