City of Covington v. Reynolds

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman.

Affirming.

About the year 1887, the Covington & Cincinnati Elevated Railroad & Transfer Bridge Company, hereinafter referred to as the bridge company, was formed by the consolidation of two -companies, one of which had been incorporated in Kentucky and the other in Ohio. It constructed a bridge across the Ohio river between Covington and Cincinnati, and thereafter the bridge was used by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company under contracts with the bridge company. The bridge company has also since the…