United States v. Louisville Bridge Co.
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
In Equity. Bill by the United States against the Louisville Bridge Company.
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, District Judge.
By an act approved February 17, 1865 (13 Stat. 431, c. 38), authority was given the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and the Jeffersonville Railroad Company (stockholders in the Louisville Bridge Company) to construct a railroad bridge of a specified character over the Ohio river at the head of the Falls of the Ohio. The authority thus given was made subject to the provisions of a previous act approved July 14, 1862 (12 Stats. 569, c. 167).
Under its charter and the authority given by Congress the defendant constructed its bridge. After its completion in 1870 it…
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