Dodd v. Louisville Bridge Co.

EVANS, District Judge.

This suit was brought in the state court in 1897 by certain individual holders of the capital stock of the Louisville Bridge Company against that company and various railroads that for many years had used its bridge. Without going into details, it will suffice to say, in general terms, that the defendant railroads had used the bridge under an arrangement probably first made in 1877, by the terms of which they were to pay tolls sufficient to accomplish several objects — such, for example, as paying for maintenance and repairs, operating expenses, and semiannual dividends…