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RAILWAY COMPANIES v. KEOKUK BRIDGE CO.

Nos. 11, 13.

131 U.S. 371 (1889)

PITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY v. KEOKUK AND HAMILTON BRIDGE COMPANY. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. KEOKUK AND HAMILTON BRIDGE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 1889.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George Hoadly for appellants.

Mr. Lyman Trumbull and Mr. Melville W. Fuller for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.

The principal positions taken in the argument for the appellants were, that the Indiana Central Company, the Pittsburgh Company and the Pennsylvania Company never authorized their officers to execute the bridge contract, or to bind them by it; and that the contract was beyond the scope of their corporate powers. But the court is...

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