DELAWARE RIVER COMM'N v. COLBURN

No. 563.

310 U.S. 419 (1940)

DELAWARE RIVER JOINT TOLL BRIDGE COMMISSION v. COLBURN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 27, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward P. Stout, with whom Mr. John H. Pursel was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Egbert Rosecrans for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question is of the right of respondents to recover consequential damages to their New Jersey land, due to interference with their access to the land and with their light, air and view caused by petitioner's construction of a bridge abutment on adjacent land. The answer turns on the question whether the Compact of 1934 between New Jersey and Pennsylvania authorizing...

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