Fulton Ferry & Bridge Co. v. Blackwood

On December 15, 1923, the county courts of Miller County and Hempstead County, Arkansas, by separate identical orders, granted a franchise to J. B. Shults and George T. Conway to build a toll-bridge across Red River, a boundary stream between said counties, “at the point where the improved road from Texarkana to Hope now crosses said river at the town of Pulton, or at such other point for crossing said river by a changed route of said highway as may be found necessary for engineering purposes, or as may be required by Government authorities in the interest of navigation.” Said courts made…