Madison County v. Clay's Ferry Bridge Co.

Opinion by

Judge Settle —

Sustaining motion and dissolving injunction.

The object of this action, brought in the Madison circuit court by the plaintiffs, Madison and Fayette counties, against the defendant, Clay’s Ferry Bridge Company, was and is to prevent that company from charging and collecting of the travelling public moneys by way of tolls for the use by the latter of an iron bridge spanning the Kentucky river at Clay’s Ferry, Kentucky, owned and operated by it. On the.bearing of the plaintiffs’ motion tberefor, a temporary injunction was granted by the judge of the Madison circuit court…