Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Co.

Citations

• 155 U.S. 156
• 15 S. Ct. 42
• 39 L. Ed. 106
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2261

Syllabus

<p>Where the railroad bridge of a bridge company and the railroads of several railroad companies form a continuous line of railway transportation, the liability of two of the-railroad companies to pay to the bridge company a certain proportion of tolls upon the bridge, and of deficiencies therein, according to a contract with the bridge company, executed by another of the railroad companies for the benefit and at the request of these two, they undertaking to assume all the liabilities and to be entitled to all the benefits of the bridge contract, “as if the same had been specifically named in and made a part of the ninth article of ” a lease of its railroad from it to them, by which article they agreed to assume and carry out certain contracts of transportation over raili-oads of other companies, is not affected by the termination of the lease by eviction or otherwise.</p> <p>Pittsburgh &c. Railway Co. v. Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Co., 131 U. S. 371, followed.</p>