State ex rel. Boardman v. Lake
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Ormsby County. The toll-road franchise, which was the subject of this action and in which the judgment of ouster-was rendered in the court below, was granted to Myron Lake by act of December 17, 1862 (Stats. 1862, 19). It gave him the right to construct and maintain the road from the Junction House in "Washoe County, running thence northerly and crossing the Truckee River at Puller’s bridge to the mouth of a…
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Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Ormsby County. The toll-road franchise, which was the subject of this action and in which the judgment of ouster-was rendered in the court below, was granted to Myron Lake by act of December 17, 1862 (Stats. 1862, 19). It gave him the right to construct and maintain the road from the Junction House in "Washoe County, running thence northerly and crossing the Truckee River at Puller’s bridge to the mouth of a ravine coming down from Pea Vine Mountain; thence following up said ravine to the base of said mountain, and thence in a…
1Opinion of the Court
*281By the Court,
Whitman, C. J.:
This appeal is from a judgment of ouster touching a certain franchise claimed by the State to have lapsed. Lake, the appellant, in 1862 was authorized by the Territory of Nevada, through its legislature, to take toll for ten years on a certain road, which he was to construct according to the terms of the statute for that ease made and provided. An important constituent part of that road was a bridge, known as Puller’s bridge, which Lake then held under purchase from Puller, which was and is the point for toll collection for passage over or along the road. Stats.…
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