Newport & Cincinnati Bridge Co. v. Foote

JUDGE PRYOR

delivered the opinion oe the court.

The legislature of Kentucky, by an act approved in the month of February, 1868, and an amendment thereto during the same session, incorporated the Newport & Cincinnati Bridge Company for the purpose of constructing a bridge from the corporate limits of the city of Newport, in this state, across the Ohio River to the city of Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio. The company was empowered by its act of incorporation to purchase, or have condemned when necessary, so much land as was required for the site of the bridge or its abutments, and for suitable…