State ex rel. Ireton v. Dolle

The relator in his petition alleges that an act of the General Assembly of Ohio was passed April 15, 1904 (97 O. L., 131; Rev. Stat., Sections 4875-1, et seq.), requiring the board of county commissioners of Hamilton county, Ohio, upon a petition signed by more than 150 electors of Hamilton county, to take proceedings to buy all the toll roads within Hamilton county and maintain them as free turnpikes. The price to be paid was not to exceed the sum of $3,000 per mile for each toll road.

The relator further says that the Columbia & New Richmond Turnpike and Bridge Company was the owner of the…