Truckee & Tahoe Turnpike Road Co. v. Campbell
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, County of Placer. The plaintiff brought this action to recover toll, alleged to be due by the defendant for traveling on its road with a four-horse team. The Court below granted a nonsuit. The plaintiff appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
It appears in this case, that the plaintiff is a corporation duly organized under the law providing for the formation of corporations, for the construction of plank and turnpike roads; that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Placer made and entered an order, authorizing the plaintiff to collect tolls from persons passing over a turnpike road leading from Tahoe City down and along Truckee River to a point near the mouth or outlet of Donner Creek, and fixed the rate of tolls; that the said turnpike road was then and still is under the management and control of…
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