Fremont Ferry & Bridge Co. v. Board of County Commissioners
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of Dodge county. Tried below before Post, J. The case is stated in the opinion. - I. The facts stated in the answer, which are admitted by, the demurrer, operated as a license to defendant, and such a license becomes irrevocable when, as in this case, defendant, acting under the same, has expended a large amount of money for the purpose of enjoying such license. 2nd American Leading Cases, page 751, where -the subject is fully discussed in…
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Appeal from the district court of Dodge county. Tried below before Post, J. The case is stated in the opinion. - I. The facts stated in the answer, which are admitted by, the demurrer, operated as a license to defendant, and such a license becomes irrevocable when, as in this case, defendant, acting under the same, has expended a large amount of money for the purpose of enjoying such license. 2nd American Leading Cases, page 751, where -the subject is fully discussed in note. Beriek v. Kern, 14 Serg. and Rawle, 267. The Ameriscoggin Bridge v. Bragg, 11 N. H., 102. Woodbury v. Parshley, 7 N.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
The material allegations in the pleadings in this case are substantially as follows: The plaintiff was incorporated by act of February 18, 1867, as the “ Fremont Ferry and Bridge Company,” with the exclusive privilege to establish and keep a ferry and bridge across *24the Platte river, at any point in township seventeen north, of range eight east of the sixth principal meridian, in the county of Dodge. The corporation established a ferry within the time required by the act, and it is alleged that within two years past the plaintiff expended large sums of money in the erection of a wagon bridge…
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