UNION BRIDGE CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 431.

204 U.S. 364 (1907)

UNION BRIDGE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 25, 1907.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. D.T. Watson and Mr. Johns McCleave, with whom Mr. John S. Wendt and Mr. W.B. Rodgers were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Milton D. Purdy, Assistant to the Attorney General, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The first principal question raised by the defendant is whether the 18th section of the River and Harbor Act of March 3d, 1899, is in violation of the Constitution of the United States as delegating legislative and judicial powers to the head of an Executive Department of the Government...

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