Victoria County v. Victoria Bridge Co.

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the *66appellee to restrain appellants from opening for travel a free bridge on the Guadalupe river, near a toll bridge owned and controlled by the former. During the progress of the cause a temporary injunction was granted, which was made perpetual on final hiearing.

In the year 1875, certain persons'being then the owners of the toll bridge above named, filed with the Secretary of State articles of incorporation as a bridge company, for the purpose of keeping and maintaining a toll bridge, at the point on the river above named, where their…