Supreme Court of Iowa July 25, 1872 (Scott v. City of Des Moines)

Beck, Ch. J.

On the 7th day of June, 1861, the supervisors of Polk county granted a license to one M. P. Turner, to erect and maintain a toll bridge across the *553Raccoon river, within the present corporate limits of the city of Des Moines. The authority so granted was to continue for twenty years.