Fulton Ferry & Bridge Co. v. Huckins

Kirby, J.,

(after stating the facts). The rates of tolls for ferriage fixed by the Miller County Court are by this proceeding challenged as unreasonable and confiscatory, depriving appellant of its property without just compensation.

It appears that no rates of toll or ferriage whatever' had been fixed by the county court after the organization of the appellant corporation and the taking over by it of the Shults ferry, operated across Red River at Fulton, the last rates fixed by the county court having been made in 1922. Under that schedule $1 was allowed to be charged as toll for ferriage of…