Birbeck v. American Toll Bridge Co. of California

The Chancellor:

American Toll Bridge Company of California will be herein referred to as Holding Company, and American Toll Bridge Company as Operating Company.

The controversy has its origin in events which occurred in the year 1923. Prior to that year and since 1917, a California company called Rodeo Vallejo Ferry Company, herein referred to as Ferry Company, was engaged in operating a ferry for the transportation of automobiles between the counties of Contra Costa and Solano, across the waters of Carquinez Straits near San Francisco, California, the outlet of the Sacramento and San Joaquin…