STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA v. WHEELING AND BELMONT BRIDGE CO.


59 U.S. 421 (1855)

18 How. 421

THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA v. THE WHEELING AND BELMONT BRIDGE COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

At December term, 1854, these several motions came on to be heard, and were argued by Mr. Edwin M. Stanton, for the State of Pennsylvania and by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Charles M. Russell, for the defendants.


Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

The motion in this case is founded upon a bill filed to carry into execution a decree of the court, rendered against the defendants at the adjourned term in May, 1852, which decree declared the bridge erected by them across the Ohio River, between Wheeling and Zane's Island, to be an obstruction of the free navigation of the said river, and thereby occasioned a special...

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