Irvine Toll Bridge Co. v. Williams

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

In the year 1909, the fiscal court of Estill county duly entered an order for the sale of the franchise at public auction for a toll bridge across the Kentucky river at Irvine. The franchise was sold; the purchasers of the franchise erected a steel bridge at the cost of $26,000; and proceeded to collect tolls on it. In 1923 the county, conceiving that the grant of the franchise by the fiscal court was without authority, brought an action in the Estill circuit court to enjoin the bridge company from further…