Covington & Cincinnati Bridge Co. v. Kentucky
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. This was an indictment found by the grand jury of Kenton County, Kentucky, against the defendant Bridge Company for demanding and collecting illegal tolls, refusing to sell tickets at the rates required by law, and for failing to keep an office for the sale of tickets at its bridge in said county.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. This was an indictment found by the grand jury of Kenton County, Kentucky, against the defendant Bridge Company for demanding and collecting illegal tolls, refusing to sell tickets at the rates required by law, and for failing to keep an office for the sale of tickets at its bridge in said county. The Covington .and Cincinnati Bridge Company was incorporated under an act of the legislature of Kentucky, approved February 17, 1816, the third section of which required the confirmation of the act by the State of Ohio, before the corporation…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case involves the power of a State to regulate tolls upon a bridge connecting it with another State, without the assent of Congress, and without the concurrence of such other State in the proposed tariff.
' The right of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to prescribe a schedule of charges in this instance is contested, not only upon the ground that such regulation is an interference with interstate commerce, but upon the further ground that it impairs the obligation of the. contract contained in the original charter of the company.
The power of Congress over commerce between the States and the…
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