Morgan

The complaint of Morgan and others, appellees here, to be called plaintiffs, doing business as the Island Ferry Company, of Alaska, sets up that on November 1, 1915, the common council of the town of Douglas, Alaska, leased to them a certain float and premises, and that plaintiffs took possession under the lease, but that on November 13, 1915, the defendant, operating a ferry between Juneau and Douglas, Alaska, wrongfully entered upon the float and premises by landing its boat thereat for the purpose of discharging freight and passengers to the exclusion of plaintiffs.

The lease was executed by the city of Douglas, a municipal corporation, by Peter Johnson, president of the com *478 mon council and ex officio mayor, to the Island Ferry Company for certain premises owned, and controlled by the town and described as: “That certain float and landing adjoining the city dock on the north side of the same, together with all piling and structures incident and appurtenant to the same and necessary for the maintenance of said float; and also the gangway and necessary approaches to said float with the right of ingress and egress to and from said float by land and water.”

The lease runs…