State v. Republican River Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original Proceedings in Mandamus. Mandamus, to compel the Republican River Bridge Company to rebuild and maintain a certain bridge across the Republican river.
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Original Proceedings in Mandamus. Mandamus, to compel the Republican River Bridge Company to rebuild and maintain a certain bridge across the Republican river. Said Bridge Company was organized in 1864. The charter, as filed in the ofiice of the secretary of state, 11th November 1864, (omitting the certificate of acknowledgment of the execution thereof,) is as follows: The undersigned hereby certify, that they have this day associated themselves into a Bridge Company, under the act of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, entitled “An act to enable the trustees of colleges, academies,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
On the 25th of September 1877, this court, upon the motion of Hon. Willard Davis, the attorney-general for the state, allowed an alternative writ of mandamus against the Republican River Bridge Company, of Davis county, commanding the company to reconstruct a bridge built in 1867 over the Republican river, on the public highway leading from Fort Riley to Junction City, in Davis county, or show cause why it had not done so. On the return of the process the defendant appeared, add moved to quash the writ, on the ground that the facts stated…
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