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COVINGTON &C. BRIDGE CO. v. KENTUCKY

No. 1025.

154 U.S. 204 (1894)

14 S.Ct. 1087

38 L.Ed. 962

COVINGTON AND CINCINNATI BRIDGE COMPANY, v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General for plaintiff in error. Mr. William M. Ramsey, Mr. James W. Bryan, Mr. John F. Fisk, and Mr. Charles II. Fisk were with him on his brief.

Mr. William J. Hendrick, Attorney General of the State of Kentucky, and Mr. William Goebel for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

This case involves the power of a State to regulate tolls upon a bridge connecting it with another State, without the assent of Congress, and without the concurrence of such other State in the proposed tariff.

The right of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to prescribe a schedule of charges in this instance is contested, not only upon the ground that such regulation is an interference...

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