State Ex Rel. Pacific County Bridge Co. v. Department of Public Works

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court reversing an order of the department of public works fixing the charges for the use of a toll bridge.

June 11,1923, the board of county commissioners of Pacific county granted to K. L. Goulter and W. J. Mumford, for the period of ten years, a franchise to construct and operate a drawbridge over and across the Naselle river in that county. The north approach of the bridge was to be at a point about one thousand feet down stream or to the west from where the Ocean Beach highway intersects with the north bank of the river. The county agreed…